Proverbs 7
7
1 My son, keep my words.
Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live!
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Call understanding your relative,
5that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 For at the window of my house,
I looked out through my lattice.
7 I saw amongst the simple ones.
I discerned amongst the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
11 She is loud and defiant.
Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurking at every corner.
13 So she caught him, and kissed him.
With an impudent face she said to him:
14“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
Today I have paid my vows.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you,
to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
19 For my husband isn’t at home.
He has gone on a long journey.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him.
He will come home at the full moon.”
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray.
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 He followed her immediately,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
as a bird hurries to the snare,
and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,
26 for she has thrown down many wounded.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol,#7:27 Sheol is the place of the dead.
going down to the rooms of death.
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Proverbs 7
7
Warning Against the Strange Woman
1My child, guard my sayings;
store my commandments with you.
2Keep my commands and live,
and my teaching like the apple of your eye.#A single word meaning “pupil of the eye”
3Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom,#Hebrew “the wisdom” “you are my sister,”
and you shall call insight,#Hebrew “the insight” “intimate friend.”#Literally “one who is known.” To “know” is often a euphemism for intercourse. Therefore “intimate friend” may also be read “lover.”
5In order to guard yourself from an adulteress,#Literally “a strange woman”
from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.#Literally “causes to be smooth her words”
6For at the window of my house,
through my lattice, I looked down.
7And I saw among the simple,
I observed among the youth,
a young man lacking sense,#Literally “heart”
8passing on the street at#Literally “at the place of” her corner,
and he takes the road to her house,
9at twilight, at the day’s evening,
in the midst of night and the darkness.
10Then behold! A woman comes to meet him
with the garment of a prostitute#Or “whore” and a secret heart.#Literally “secret of heart”
11She is loud and stubborn;
her feet do not stay at her house.
12Now in the street, now in the square,
at#Literally “at the place of” every corner she lies in wait.
13She took hold of #Or “strengthened” him and kissed him.
Her face was impudent, and she said to him,
14“Sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me;
today#Literally “the day” I completed my vows.
15So#Hebrew “thus” I have come out to meet you,
to seek your face, and I have found you.
16With coverings I have adorned my couch,
spreads of the linen of Egypt;
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love making,
until the morning let us delight in love.
19For there is no man#Or “husband” in his home;
he has gone on a long journey.#Literally “a journey from far”
20The bag of money he took in his hand,
for on the day of the full moon he will come home.”
21She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings;
with her smooth lips she compels him.
22He goes after her suddenly;
like an ox to the slaughter he goes,
and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
23until an arrow pierces his entrails,#Literally “heaviness,” often referring to the liver
like a bird rushing into a snare,
but he does not know that it will cost him his life.#Literally “it is against his life”
Reiteration of the Warning Against a Strange Woman
24And now, my children, listen to me,
and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth.
25May your heart not turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her path.
26For many slain she has laid low,
and countless#Or “strong men” are all of her killings.
27The ways of Sheol#A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld are her house,
descending to chambers of death.
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