Proverbs 7
7
1My son,
pay attention to my words.
Treasure my commands that are within you.
2Obey my commands so that you may live.
Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.
3Tie them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Give the name “my relative” to understanding
5in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
6From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
7I was looking at gullible people
when I saw a young man without much sense among youths
8He was crossing a street near her corner
and walking toward her house
9in the twilight,
in the evening,
in the dark hours of the night.
10A woman with an ulterior motive meets him.
She is dressed as a prostitute.
11She is loud and rebellious.
Her feet will not stay at home.
12One moment she is out on the street,
the next she is at the curb,
on the prowl at every corner.
13She grabs him and kisses him and brazenly says to him,
14“I have some sacrificial meat.
Today I kept my vows.
15That’s why I came to meet you.
Eagerly, I looked for you,
and I’ve found you.
16I’ve made my bed,
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
17I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.
Let’s enjoy making love,
19because my husband’s not home.
He has gone on a long trip.
20He took lots of money with him.
He won’t be home for a couple of weeks.”
21With all her seductive charms, she persuades him.
With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
22He immediately follows her
like a steer on its way to be slaughtered,
like a ram hobbling into captivity
23until an arrow pierces his heart,
like a bird darting into a trap.
He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
24Now, sons,
listen to me.
Pay attention to the words from my mouth.
25Do not let your heart be turned to her ways.
Do not wander onto her paths,
26because she has brought down many victims,
and she has killed all too many.
27Her home is the way to hell
and leads to the darkest vaults of death.
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Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 7
7
1My son, guard my words, And treasure up my commands with you.
2Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye.
3Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding a close friend,
5To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,
7And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart,
8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house
9In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night.
10And look, a woman met him, Dressed like a whore, With a hidden heart.
11She was boisterous and stubborn, Her feet did not stay at her own house.
12Now in the street, Now in the square, And at every corner she lurks.
13And she took hold of him and kissed him; She hardened her face and said to him:
14“Slaughterings of peace offerings are with me; Today I have paid my vows.
15“Therefore I came out to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I found you.
16“I have spread my bed with coverings, Coloured linens of Mitsrayim.
17“I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18“Come, let us take our fill of carnal-love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.
19“For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;
20“He took a bag of silver with him; He comes home on the day of the covering.”
21With her many words she leads him astray, With her smooth lips she seduces him.
22He goes after her immediately, Like an ox he goes to the slaughter, And as in chains, a fool to the punishment,
23Till an arrow strikes through his liver; Like a bird rushing into a snare, And did not know it would take his life.
24And now, listen to me, you children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:
25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray in her paths.
26For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, And numerous all her killed ones.
27Her house is the way to She’ol, Going down to the rooms of death.
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