Proverbs 7
1 My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions [as you would] [MET] [guard] a treasure.
O son my keep words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
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.
Keep commandments my and live and instruction my like [the] pupil of eyes your.
3 Tie my commands around your fingers [in order that they will remind you to obey them]. Always keep them in mind [MET].
Bind them on fingers your write them on [the] tablet of heart your.
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 to wisdom [are] sister my you and a relative to discernment you will call.
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.
To keep you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
6 One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
For at [the] window of house my through lattice my I looked down.
7 I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.
And I saw among the naive people I observed among the sons a youth lacking of heart.
8 He crossed the street near [the house of] an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house
[who] was passing by In the street beside corner her and [the] direction of house her he strode.
9 at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU].
At twilight in [the] evening of [the] day in [the] middle of [the] night and darkness.
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 there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.
11 She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she [SYN] never stayed at home.
[is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her.
12 She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.
A time - in the street a time in the open places and beside every corner she lies in wait.
13 [When she saw that young man], she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,
And she takes hold on him and she kisses him she has made firm face her and she said to 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.
Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] on me this day I have paid vows my.
15 And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and [now] I have found you!
There-fore I have come out to meet you to seek face your and I have found you.
16 I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from [very fine] linen [that were imported] {[people brought]} from Egypt.
Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled [sweet-smelling] perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.
I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come [with me]; let us enjoy having sex until [tomorrow] morning. Let’s enjoy making love.
Come! let us take our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with love.
19 My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
For not the husband [is] in house his he has gone on a journey from a distance.
20 He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
[the] bag of Money he has taken in hand his to [the] day of the full moon he will come house his.
21 [So] she persuaded him by [her] enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels 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,
[he is] walking Behind her suddenly like an ox [which] to [the] slaughter it goes and like an anklet to [the] chastening of a fool.
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).
Until it will pierce an arrow liver his as hurries a bird into a trap and not he knows that [is] for life his it.
24 My son, listen to what I say; pay [careful] attention to my words.
And therefore O children listen to me and be attentive to [the] words of mouth my.
25 Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.
May not it turn aside to ways her heart your may not it go astray in pathways her.
26 She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her.
