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| [1]My son, keep my words, and hide my commandments with thee. |
[1]My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. |
| [2]Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes. |
[2]Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. |
| [3]Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the table of thine heart. |
[3]Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. |
| [4]Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister: and call understanding thy kinswoman, |
[4]Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!' |
| [5]That they may keep thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger that is smooth in her words. |
[5]To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings. |
| [6]As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my window, |
[6]For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, |
| [7]And I saw among the fools, and considered among the children a young man destitute of understanding, |
[7]And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, |
| [8]Who passed through the street by her corner, and went toward her house, |
[8]Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step, |
| [9]In the twilight in the evening, when the night began to be black and dark. |
[9]In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. |
| [10]And behold, there met him a woman with an harlot's behavior, and subtle in heart. |
[10]And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart, |
| [11](She is babbling and loud: whose feet cannot abide in her house. |
[11]Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. |
| [12]Now she is without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner) |
[12]Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) -- |
| [13]So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him, |
[13]And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, |
| [14]I have peace offerings: this day have I paid my vows. |
[14]`Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows. |
| [15]Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face: and I have found thee. |
[15]Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. |
| [16]I have decked my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt. |
[16][With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt. |
| [17]I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
[17]I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| [18]Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us take our pleasure in dalliance. |
[18]Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. |
| [19]For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a journey far off. |
[19]For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. |
| [20]He hath taken with him a bag of silver, and will come home at the day appointed. |
[20]A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.' |
| [21]Thus with her great craft she caused him to yield, and with her flattering lips she enticed him. |
[21]She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. |
| [22]And he followed her straight ways, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the stocks for correction, |
[22]He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, |
| [23]Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger. |
[23]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. |
| [24]Hear me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the words of my mouth. |
[24]And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. |
| [25]Let not thine heart decline to her ways: wander thou not in her paths. |
[25]Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, |
| [26]For she hath caused many to fall down wounded, and the strong men are all slain by her. |
[26]For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones. |
| [27]Her house is the way unto the grave, which goeth down to the chambers of death. |
[27]The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death! |