Proverbs 7
1 son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
5 to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9 in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
Look, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.
12 beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 and to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and to kiss to/for him be strong face her and to say to/for him
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
15 upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
19 for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 bundle [the] silver: money to take: take in/on/with hand: to his to/for day [the] full moon to come (in): come house: home his
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
21 to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 to go: follow after her suddenly like/as cattle to(wards) slaughter to come (in): come and like/as anklet to(wards) discipline: bonds fool(ish)
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a stag leaping into a trap,
23 till to cleave arrow liver his like/as to hasten bird to(wards) snare and not to know for in/on/with soul: life his he/she/it
till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
24 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
Now therefore, son, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,
26 for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
