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| Proverbs 7:1 | My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. | | My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. | My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. |
| Proverbs 7:2 | Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. | | Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes; | Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. |
| Proverbs 7:3 | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. | | Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. | Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. |
| Proverbs 7:4 | Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: | | Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend: | Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou [art].` And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!` |
| Proverbs 7:5 | That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. | | So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth. | To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings. |
| Proverbs 7:6 | For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, | | Looking out from my house, and watching through the window, | For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, |
| Proverbs 7:7 | And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, | | I saw among the young men one without sense, | And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, |
| Proverbs 7:8 | Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, | | Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, | Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step, |
| Proverbs 7:9 | In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: | | At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. | In the twilight in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. |
| Proverbs 7:10 | And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. | | And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; | And, lo, a woman to meet him (A harlot`s dress, and watchful of heart, |
| Proverbs 7:11 | (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: | | She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house. | Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. |
| Proverbs 7:12 | Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) | | Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. | Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) |
| Proverbs 7:13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, | | So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: | And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, |
| Proverbs 7:14 | I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. | | I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. | `Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows. |
| Proverbs 7:15 | Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. | | So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. | Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. |
| Proverbs 7:16 | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. | | My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; | [With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works cotton of Egypt. |
| Proverbs 7:17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | | I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. | I sprinkled my bed myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| Proverbs 7:18 | Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. | | Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights. | Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. |
| Proverbs 7:19 | For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: | | For the master of the house is away on a long journey: | For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. |
| Proverbs 7:20 | He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. | | He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon. | A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.` |
| Proverbs 7:21 | With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. | | With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips. | She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. |
| Proverbs 7:22 | He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; | | The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; | He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, |
| Proverbs 7:23 | Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. | | Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side. | Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life. |
| Proverbs 7:24 | Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. | | So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth; | And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. |
| Proverbs 7:25 | Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. | | Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. | Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, |
| Proverbs 7:26 | For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. | | For 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. | For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones. |
| Proverbs 7:27 | Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. | | Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death. | The ways of Sheol her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death! |
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