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The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 7

Chapter 702 of 1,075

Canonical reference Proverbs 7

English

World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)

1. My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2. Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3. Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4. Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
5. that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6. For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7. I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8. passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9. in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10. Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11. She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12. Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13. So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14. “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
15. Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16. I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
19. For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20. He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
21. With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22. He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23. Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
24. Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25. Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
26. for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

French

Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)

1. Mon fils, retiens mes paroles, et garde avec toi mes préceptes.
2. Observe mes préceptes, et tu vivras, garde mon enseignement comme la prunelle de tes yeux.
3. Lie-les sur tes doigts, écris-les sur la table de ton cœur.
4. Dis à la sagesse : Tu es ma sœur ! et appelle l’intelligence ton amie,
5. pour qu’elle te préserve de la femme d’autrui, de l’étrangère qui fait entendre de douces paroles.
6. Etant à la fenêtre de ma maison, je regardais à travers le treillis.
7. J’aperçus parmi les insensés, je remarquai parmi les jeunes gens un garçon dépourvu de sens.
8. Il passait dans la rue, près du logis d’une étrangère, et il s’avançait vers sa demeure.
9. C’était au crépuscule, à la chute du jour, au milieu de la nuit et de l’obscurité.
10. Et voilà qu’une femme l’aborde, ayant la mise d’une courtisane et la dissimulation dans le cœur.
11. Elle est impétueuse et indomptable ; ses pieds ne peuvent se reposer dans sa maison ;
12. tantôt dans la rue, tantôt sur les places, et près de tous les angles, elle se tient aux aguets.
13. Elle saisit le jeune homme et l’embrasse, et avec un visage effronté lui dit :
14. « Je devais offrir des victimes pacifiques, aujourd’hui j’ai accompli mes vœux.
15. C’est pourquoi je suis sortie à ta rencontre, pour te chercher, et je t’ai trouvé.
16. J’ai garni mon lit de couvertures, de tapis de fil d’Égypte.
17. J’ai parfumé ma couche de myrrhe, d’aloès et de cinnamome.
18. Viens, enivrons-nous d’amour jusqu’au matin, livrons-nous aux délices de la volupté.
19. Car mon mari n’est pas à la maison, il est parti pour un lointain voyage ;
20. il a pris avec lui le sac de l’argent, il ne reviendra à la maison qu’à la pleine lune. »
21. Elle le séduit à force de paroles, elle l’entraîne par les paroles de ses lèvres ;
22. il se met aussitôt à la suivre, comme le bœuf qui va à la boucherie, comme l’insensé qui court au châtiment des entraves,
23. jusqu’à ce qu’une flèche lui perce le foie, comme l’oiseau qui se précipite dans le filet, sans savoir qu’il y va pour lui de sa vie.
24. Et maintenant, mes fils, écoutez-moi, et soyez attentifs aux paroles de ma bouche.
25. Que ton cœur ne se détourne pas vers ses voies, ne t’égare pas dans ses sentiers.
26. Car elle a fait de nombreux blessés, et nombreuses ont été ses victimes.
27. Sa maison est le chemin du schéol, qui descend au séjour de la mort.

Latin

Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)

1. [Fili mi, custodi sermones meos, et præcepta mea reconde tibi. Fili,
2. serva mandata mea, et vives; et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui:
3. liga eam in digitis tuis, scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui.
4. Dic sapientiæ: Soror mea es, et prudentiam voca amicam tuam:
5. ut custodiant te a muliere extranea, et ab aliena quæ verba sua dulcia facit.
6. De fenestra enim domus meæ per cancellos prospexi,
7. et video parvulos; considero vecordem juvenem,
8. qui transit per plateam juxta angulum et prope viam domus illius graditur:
9. in obscuro, advesperascente die, in noctis tenebris et caligine.
10. Et ecce occurrit illi mulier ornatu meretricio, præparata ad capiendas animas: garrula et vaga,
11. quietis impatiens, nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis;
12. nunc foris, nunc in plateis, nunc juxta angulos insidians.
13. Apprehensumque deosculatur juvenem, et procaci vultu blanditur, dicens:
14. Victimas pro salute vovi; hodie reddidi vota mea:
15. idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum, desiderans te videre, et reperi.
16. Intexui funibus lectulum meum; stravi tapetibus pictis ex Ægypto:
17. aspersi cubile meum myrrha, et aloë, et cinnamomo.
18. Veni, inebriemur uberibus, et fruamur cupitis amplexibus donec illucescat dies.
19. Non est enim vir in domo sua: abiit via longissima:
20. sacculum pecuniæ secum tulit; in die plenæ lunæ reversurus est in domum suam.
21. Irretivit eum multis sermonibus, et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum.
22. Statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam, et quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur:
23. donec transfigat sagitta jecur ejus, velut si avis festinet ad laqueum, et nescit quod de periculo animæ illius agitur.
24. Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi me, et attende verbis oris mei.
25. Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus;
26. multos enim vulneratos dejecit, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea.
27. Viæ inferi domus ejus, penetrantes in interiora mortis.]

Concepts in this passage

Verses in this chapter

  1. Verse 1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
  2. Verse 2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
  3. Verse 3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
  4. Verse 4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
  5. Verse 5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  6. Verse 6For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
  7. Verse 7I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
  8. Verse 8passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
  9. Verse 9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
  10. Verse 10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
  11. Verse 11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
  12. Verse 12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
  13. Verse 13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
  14. Verse 14“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
  15. Verse 15Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
  16. Verse 16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
  17. Verse 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
  18. Verse 18Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
  19. Verse 19For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
  20. Verse 20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
  21. Verse 21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
  22. Verse 22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
  23. Verse 23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
  24. Verse 24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
  25. Verse 25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
  26. Verse 26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
  27. Verse 27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

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