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| [1]MY son, keep my words and hide my commandments within you. |
[1]My son, keep my words, and hide my commandments with thee. |
| [2]Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye. |
[2]Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes. |
| [3]Bind them about your neck; write them upon the tablets of your heart. |
[3]Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the table of thine heart. |
| [4]Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and to understanding, You are my counselor |
[4]Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister: and call understanding thy kinswoman, |
| [5]That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger that flatters with her words |
[5]That they may keep thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger that is smooth in her words. |
| [6]For from the window of her house and from the balcony she looked out, |
[6]As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my window, |
| [7]And she beheld young men, she spied among the youths, and those who lacked understanding, |
[7]And I saw among the fools, and considered among the children a young man destitute of understanding, |
| [8]Passing through the street near the corner of her house, |
[8]Who passed through the street by her corner, and went toward her house, |
| [9]In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night; |
[9]In the twilight in the evening, when the night began to be black and dark. |
| [10]And, behold, there came out a woman with the attire of a harlot to meet one of them, a woman who fluttered the hearts of young men. |
[10]And behold, there met him a woman with an harlot's behavior, and subtle in heart. |
| [11]She is rebellious and gluttonous; her feet do not abide in her house; |
[11](She is babbling and loud: whose feet cannot abide in her house. |
| [12]But she roams around outside, now in the streets, and now lying in wait at the corners. |
[12]Now she is without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner) |
| [13]So she caught him and kissed him, and, with an impudent face, said to him, |
[13]So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him, |
| [14]This day I have paid my vows, I have peace offerings with me; |
[14]I have peace offerings: this day have I paid my vows. |
| [15]Therefore I came out to meet you, for I have been waiting to see you, and now I have found you. |
[15]Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face: and I have found thee. |
| [16]I have made my bed upon a carpet; I have covered it with fine linen of Egypt. |
[16]I have decked my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt. |
| [17]I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
[17]I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| [18]Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us embrace each other with passion. |
[18]Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us take our pleasure in dalliance. |
| [19]For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey: |
[19]For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a journey far off. |
| [20]He has taken a bag of money with him, and it will be a long time before he comes home. |
[20]He hath taken with him a bag of silver, and will come home at the day appointed. |
| [21]With much fair speech she misled him, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
[21]Thus with her great craft she caused him to yield, and with her flattering lips she enticed him. |
| [22]He went after her as a little child, as an ox that goes to the slaughter, and as a dog to be muzzled; |
[22]And he followed her straight ways, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the stocks for correction, |
| [23]And as a stag whose liver is pierced with an arrow, as a bird hastens to the snare, and does not know that he goes to his death |
[23]Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger. |
| [24]Now therefore, O my children, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
[24]Hear me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the words of my mouth. |
| [25]Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not go astray in her paths. |
[25]Let not thine heart decline to her ways: wander thou not in her paths. |
| [26]For she has cast down many wounded; yea, many mighty men have been slain by her. |
[26]For she hath caused many to fall down wounded, and the strong men are all slain by her. |
| [27]The ways to her house are the ways to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death |
[27]Her house is the way unto the grave, which goeth down to the chambers of death. |