Proverbiorum 7
1 fili mi custodi sermones meos et praecepta mea reconde tibi
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
2 serva mandata mea et vives et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
3 liga eam in digitis tuis scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui
Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart.
4 dic sapientiae soror mea es et prudentiam voca amicam tuam
Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
5 ut custodiat te a muliere extranea et ab aliena quae verba sua dulcia facit
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
6 de fenestra enim domus meae per cancellos prospexi
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 et video parvulos considero vecordem iuvenem
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 qui transit in platea iuxta angulum et propter viam domus illius graditur
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 in obscuro advesperascente die in noctis tenebris et caligine
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 et ecce mulier occurrit illi ornatu meretricio praeparata ad capiendas animas garrula et vaga
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 quietis inpatiens nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 nunc foris nunc in plateis nunc iuxta angulos insidians
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
13 adprehensumque deosculatur iuvenem et procaci vultu blanditur dicens
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an shameless face said unto him,
14 victimas pro salute debui hodie reddidi vota mea
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
15 idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum desiderans te videre et repperi
Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 intexui funibus lectum meum stravi tapetibus pictis ex Aegypto
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17 aspersi cubile meum murra et aloe et cinnamomo
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 veni inebriemur uberibus donec inlucescat dies et fruamur cupitis amplexibus
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19 non est enim vir in domo sua abiit via longissima
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20 sacculum pecuniae secum tulit in die plenae lunae reversurus est domum suam
He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 inretivit eum multis sermonibus et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam et quasi agnus lasciviens et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur
He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23 donec transfigat sagitta iecur eius velut si avis festinet ad laqueum et nescit quia de periculo animae illius agitur
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
24 nunc ergo fili audi me et adtende verba oris mei
Hearken unto me now therefore, O all of you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua neque decipiaris semitis eius
Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 multos enim vulneratos deiecit et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea
For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
