< Proverbs 7 >
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
O son my keep words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keep commandments my and live and instruction my like [the] pupil of eyes your.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Bind them on fingers your write them on [the] tablet of heart your.
4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
Say to wisdom [are] sister my you and a relative to discernment you will call.
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
To keep you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
For at [the] window of house my through lattice my I looked down.
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
And I saw among the naive people I observed among the sons a youth lacking of heart.
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
[who] was passing by In the street beside corner her and [the] direction of house her he strode.
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
At twilight in [the] evening of [the] day in [the] middle of [the] night and darkness.
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
And there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
[is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
A time - in the street a time in the open places and beside every corner she lies in wait.
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
And she takes hold on him and she kisses him she has made firm face her and she said to him.
14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] on me this day I have paid vows my.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and 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 spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
Come! let us take our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
For not the husband [is] in house his he has gone on a journey from a distance.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
[the] bag of Money he has taken in hand his to [the] day of the full moon he will come house his.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels him.
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
[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 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
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 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
And therefore O children listen to me and be attentive to [the] words of mouth my.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
May not it turn aside to ways her heart your may not it go astray in pathways her.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. (Sheol )
[is] [the] ways of Sheol house her [which] go down to [the] chambers of death. (Sheol )