Proverbs 7
Names of God Bible
7 My son,
pay attention to my words.
Treasure my commands that are within you.
2 Obey my commands so that you may live.
Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.
3 Tie them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Give the name “my relative” to understanding
5 in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
6 From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
7 I was looking at gullible people
when I saw a young man without much sense among youths.
8 He was crossing a street near her corner
and walking toward her house
9 in the twilight,
in the evening,
in the dark hours of the night.
10 A woman with an ulterior motive meets him.
She is dressed as a prostitute.
11 She is loud and rebellious.
Her feet will not stay at home.
12 One moment she is out on the street,
the next she is at the curb,
on the prowl at every corner.
13 She grabs him and kisses him and brazenly says to him,
14 “I have some sacrificial meat.
Today I kept my vows.
15 That’s why I came to meet you.
Eagerly, I looked for you,
and I’ve found you.
16 I’ve made my bed,
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
17 I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.
Let’s enjoy making love,
19 because my husband’s not home.
He has gone on a long trip.
20 He took lots of money with him.
He won’t be home for a couple of weeks.”
21 With all her seductive charms, she persuades him.
With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
22 He immediately follows her
like a steer on its way to be slaughtered,
like a ram hobbling into captivity[a]
23 until an arrow pierces his heart,
like a bird darting into a trap.
He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
24 Now, sons,
listen to me.
Pay attention to the words from my mouth.
25 Do not let your heart be turned to her ways.
Do not wander onto her paths,
26 because she has brought down many victims,
and she has killed all too many.
27 Her home is the way to hell
and leads to the darkest vaults of death.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.
Proverbs 7
King James Version
7 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now is she 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 unto him,
14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
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 solace ourselves with loves.
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 7
English Standard Version
Warning Against the Adulteress
7 (A)My son, keep my words
and (B)treasure up my commandments with you;
2 (C)keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as (D)the apple of your eye;
3 (E)bind them on your fingers;
(F)write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from (G)the forbidden[a] woman,
from (H)the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.
6 For at (I)the window of my house
I have looked out through my lattice,
7 and I have seen among (J)the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man (K)lacking sense,
8 passing along the street (L)near her corner,
taking the road to her house
9 in (M)the twilight, in the evening,
at (N)the time of night and darkness.
10 And behold, the woman meets him,
(O)dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.[c]
11 She is (P)loud and (Q)wayward;
(R)her feet do not stay at home;
12 now in the street, now in the market,
and (S)at every corner she (T)lies in wait.
13 She seizes him and kisses him,
and with (U)bold face she says to him,
14 “I had to (V)offer sacrifices,[d]
and today I have (W)paid my vows;
15 so now I have come out to meet you,
to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
16 I have spread my couch with (X)coverings,
colored linens from (Y)Egyptian linen;
17 I have perfumed my bed with (Z)myrrh,
aloes, and (AA)cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For (AB)my husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey;
20 he took a bag of money with him;
at full moon he will come home.”
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with (AC)her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[e]
23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (AD)a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24 And (AE)now, O sons, listen to me,
and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
26 for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are (AF)a mighty throng.
27 Her house is (AG)the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman
- Proverbs 7:10 Hebrew guarded in heart
- Proverbs 7:14 Hebrew peace offerings
- Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool
Fjalët e urta 7
Albanian Bible
7 Biri im, ruaji fjalët e mia dhe urdhërimet e mia në veten tënde,
2 Ruaji urdhërimet e mia dhe ke për të jetuar; ruaji mësimet e mia si bebja e syve të tu.
3 Lidhi ndër gishta, shkruaji mbi tabelën e zemrës sate.
4 Thuaji diturisë: "Ti je motra ime" dhe quaje "shok" gjykimin,
5 me qëllim që të të ruajnë nga gruaja e tjetrit nga gruaja e huaj që përdor fjalë lajkatare.
6 Nga dritarja e shtëpisë sime shikoja nëpër parmakët prej hekuri
7 dhe pashë midis budallenjve; dallova midis të rinjve një djalë të ri që s’kishte gjykim,
8 që kalonte nëpër rrugë pranë qoshes të gruas së huaj dhe drejtohej nga shtëpia e saj,
9 në muzg, kur po ngryste dita, ndërsa zbriste nata e zezë dhe e errët.
10 I doli para një grua e veshur si prostitutë dhe dinake;
11 ajo është turbulluese dhe provokuese, dhe nuk di t’i mbajë këmbët në shtëpinë e saj;
12 herë mbi rrugë, herë në sheshet qëndron në pritë në çdo qoshe.
13 Kështu e zuri dhe e puthi, pastaj me paturpësi tha:
14 "Duhet të bëja flijimet e falenderimit; pikërisht sot i plotësova zotimet e mia;
15 prandaj të dola para që të të kërkoj dhe të gjeta.
16 E zbukurova shtratin tim me një mbulesë si sixhade, me li të ngjyrosur nga Egjipti;
17 e parfumova shtratin tim me mirrë, me aloe dhe me kanellë.
18 Eja, të dehemi me dashuri deri në mëngjes, të kënaqemi në qejfe dashurie,
19 sepse burri im nuk është në shtëpi, por ka shkuar në një udhëtim të gjatë;
20 ka marrë me vete një thes të vogël me pare dhe do të kthehet në shtëpi vetëm kur të jetë hëna e plotë".
21 Ajo e mashtroi me fjalë bindëse, e tërhoqi me ëmbëlsinë e buzëve të saj.
22 Ai e ndoqi pa mëdyshje, si një ka që shkon në thertore, si një i lidhur në dënimin e budallait,
23 deri sa një shigjetë nuk i shpon mëlçinë; ai nxiton si një zog, pa ditur që një lak është ngritur kundër jetës së tij.
24 Prandaj, bij të mi, më dëgjoni, kushtojuni kujdes fjalëve të gojës sime.
25 Zemra jote të mos shkojë pas rrugëve të saj, mos devijo nëpër shtigjet e saj,
26 sepse ka rrëzuar shumë të plagosur për vdekje, dhe tërë ata që ajo ka vrarë ishin burra të fortë.
27 Shtëpia e saj është rruga e Sheolit që zbret në thellësitë e vdekjes.
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