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Proverbs 7
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
[My] son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments.
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [thine] eyes.
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple (note: Literally the pupil) of your eye.
And bind them on thy fingers, and write [them] on the table of thine heart.
Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
I have a peace-offering; to-day I pay my vows:
“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; [and] I have found thee.
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips she forced him from [the right path].
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap (note: Probable reading (see LXX, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew like fetters to discipline a fool),
and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
Now then, [my] son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.