സദൃശവാക്യങ്ങൾ 7
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 ൨ നീ ജീവിച്ചിരിക്കേണ്ടതിന് എന്റെ കല്പനകളെയും ഉപദേശത്തെയും നിന്റെ കണ്ണിന്റെ കൃഷ്ണമണിപോലെ കാത്തുകൊള്ളുക.
Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them upon thy fingers. Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Say to wisdom, Thou are my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman,
that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice,
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding
passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house,
9 ൯ അവളുടെ വീടിന്റെ കോണിനരികെ വീഥിയിൽകൂടി കടന്ന്, അവളുടെ വീട്ടിലേക്കുള്ള വഴിയിൽ കൂടിനടന്നുചെല്ലുന്നു.
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 ൧൦ പെട്ടെന്ന് ഇതാ ഒരു സ്ത്രീ, വേശ്യാവസ്ത്രം ധരിച്ചും, ഹൃദയത്തിൽ ഉപായം നിരൂപിച്ചും, അവനെ എതിരേറ്റുവരുന്നു.
And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart.
She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner.
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him,
Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day.
15 ൧൫ അതുകൊണ്ട് ഞാൻ നിന്നെ കാണുവാൻ ആഗ്രഹിച്ച് നിന്നെ എതിരേല്ക്കുവാൻ പുറപ്പെട്ട് നിന്നെ കണ്ടെത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു.
Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.
For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey.
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
23 ൨൩ പക്ഷി ജീവഹാനിക്കുള്ളതെന്ന് അറിയാതെ കെണിയിലേക്ക് ബദ്ധപ്പെടുന്നതുപോലെയും കരളിൽ അസ്ത്രം തറയ്ക്കുവോളം അവൻ അവളുടെ പിന്നാലെ ചെല്ലുന്നു.
till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.
For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
