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