Proverbs 7
1 My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions [as you would] [MET] [guard] a treasure.
My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
2 Obey my commands, and [as a result you will] live [a good life]. Consider the things that I teach you [to be very precious]; guard them, [just] like you protect your eyes.
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
3 Tie my commands around your fingers [in order that they will remind you to obey them]. Always keep them in mind [MET].
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4 [Love] wisdom [like you love] your sister. Understand what is wise, [and let that be as dear to you as] members of your family.
Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
5 If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not [sleep with] an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you [to sleep with her] by what she says.
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
6 One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.
And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 He crossed the street near [the house of] an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
9 at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU].
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
10 Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him. She was dressed (seductively/like a prostitute), wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
11 She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she [SYN] never stayed at home.
(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
12 She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
13 [When she saw that young man], she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
14 “I have [some meat that is left over from] a sacrifice that I made today [to maintain fellowship with Yahweh]; I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
15 And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and [now] I have found you!
Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
16 I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from [very fine] linen [that were imported] {[people brought]} from Egypt.
I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled [sweet-smelling] perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18 Come [with me]; let us enjoy having sex until [tomorrow] morning. Let’s enjoy making love.
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
19 My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
20 He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 [So] she persuaded him by [her] enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
22 [And] he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,
And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
23 where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver [and kills it]. [He was] like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that (it would cost him his life/he would die as a result).
Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
24 My son, listen to what I say; pay [careful] attention to my words.
Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
25 Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
26 She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
