Proverbs 7
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- 1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- 2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
- שְׁמֹ֣ר
- שְׁמֹ֣רshe.MorkeepH8104H
- מִצְוֹתַ֣י
- וֶחְיֵ֑ה
- וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י
- כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן
- עֵינֶֽיךָ׃
- שְׁמֹ֣ר
- 3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
- 4Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
- 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- 6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
- 7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- 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 behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
- 11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
- 12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
- 13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
- וְהֶחֱזִ֣יקָה
- בּ֭וֹ
- וְנָ֣שְׁקָה־
- לּ֑וֹ
- הֵעֵ֥זָה
- הֵעֵ֥זָהhe.'E.zahshe has made firmH5810
- פָ֝נֶ֗יהָ
- וַתֹּ֣אמַר
- לֽוֹ׃
- 14I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
- 15Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
- 16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
- 19For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
- 20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.
- הִ֭טַּתּוּ
- בְּרֹ֣ב
- לִקְחָ֑הּ
- בְּחֵ֥לֶק
- שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יהָ
- תַּדִּיחֶֽנּוּ׃
- 22He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- 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
- 23Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- 24Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
- 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- 26For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.
- 27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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