Proverbs 7
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- 1My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
- 2Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
- שְׁמֹ֣ר
- שְׁמֹ֣רshe.MorkeepH8104H
- מִצְוֹתַ֣י
- וֶחְיֵ֑ה
- וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י
- כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן
- עֵינֶֽיךָ׃
- שְׁמֹ֣ר
- 3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
- 4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
- 5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
- 6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
- 7I saw among the young men one without sense,
- 8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
- 9At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
- 10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
- 11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
- 12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
- 13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
- וְהֶחֱזִ֣יקָה
- בּ֭וֹ
- וְנָ֣שְׁקָה־
- לּ֑וֹ
- הֵעֵ֥זָה
- הֵעֵ֥זָהhe.'E.zahshe has made firmH5810
- פָ֝נֶ֗יהָ
- וַתֹּ֣אמַר
- לֽוֹ׃
- 14I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
- 15So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
- 16My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
- 17I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
- 18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
- 19For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
- 20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
- 21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
- הִ֭טַּתּוּ
- בְּרֹ֣ב
- לִקְחָ֑הּ
- בְּחֵ֥לֶק
- שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יהָ
- תַּדִּיחֶֽנּוּ׃
- 22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
- ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְ
- ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְho.Lekh[he is] walkingH1980N
- אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ
- פִּ֫תְאֹ֥ם
- פִּ֫תְאֹ֥םpit.'OmsuddenlyH6597
- כְּ֭שׁוֹר
- אֶל־
- אֶל'el-[which] toH0413
- טָ֣בַח
- טָ֣בַחTa.vach[the] slaughterH2874
- יָב֑וֹא
- יָב֑וֹאya.Vo'it goesH0935G
- וּ֝כְעֶ֗כֶס
- אֶל־
- אֶל'el-toH0413
- מוּסַ֥ר
- מוּסַ֥רmu.Sar[the] chastening ofH4148I
- אֱוִֽיל׃
- אֱוִֽיל'e.Vila foolH0191
- ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְ
- 23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
- 24So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
- 25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
- 26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
- 27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
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