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. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολάς καὶ βιώσεις τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων
Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 εἶπον τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
5 ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάληται
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς
passing through the street near her corner, 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 middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας
Look, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστιν καὶ ἄσωτος ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς
She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.
12 χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστιν σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου
"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
15 ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς συνάντησίν σοι ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον εὕρηκά σε
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 κειρίαις τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 διέρραγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κρόκῳ τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
19 οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακρὰν
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ δῑ ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
21 ἀπεπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμοὺς
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a stag leaping into a trap,
23 ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει
till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
24 νῦν οὖν υἱέ ἄκουέ μου καὶ πρόσεχε ῥήμασιν στόματός μου
Now therefore, son, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου
Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,
26 πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκεν καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
