Παροιμίαι 7
1 υἱέ φύλασσε ἐμοὺς λόγους τὰς δὲ ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς κρύψον παρὰ σεαυτῷ υἱέ τίμα τὸν κύριον καὶ ἰσχύσεις πλὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβοῦ ἄλλον
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολάς καὶ βιώσεις τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
3 περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
4 εἶπον τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
5 ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάληται
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
6 ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα
For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
7 ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
8 παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 καὶ λαλοῦντα ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ ᾖ καὶ γνοφώδης
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10 ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστιν καὶ ἄσωτος ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12 χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει
now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
13 εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστιν σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
15 ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς συνάντησίν σοι ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον εὕρηκά σε
therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
16 κειρίαις τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
17 διέρραγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κρόκῳ τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
19 οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακρὰν
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
20 ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ δῑ ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
21 ἀπεπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
22 ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμοὺς
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
23 ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
24 νῦν οὖν υἱέ ἄκουέ μου καὶ πρόσεχε ῥήμασιν στόματός μου
And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου
Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
26 πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκεν καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
