Proverbs 7
1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,
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 day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 And, lo, a woman to meet him — (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith 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] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.
upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
16 [With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works — cotton of Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For the man is not in his house, He hath 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 A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'
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 She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
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 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its 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 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander 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 many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
