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Proverbs 7

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

7 I saw among the young men one without sense,

8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.

15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

26 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.

27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Beni (my son), be shomer over my words, and treasure up my mitzvot with thee.

2 Be shomer over my mitzvot, and live, and over my torah as the apple of thine eye.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the luach (tablet) of thine lev.

4 Say unto chochmah, Thou art my achot; and call binah (understanding) thy kinsman;

5 That they may be shomer over thee and keep thee from the zarah, from the nokhriyah with her smooth words.

6 For at the chalon (window) of my bais I looked through my lattice,

7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the banim, a na’ar (young man) devoid of lev [of understanding, sense],

8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went on the derech to her bais,

9 In the twilight, at erev, in the black and dark lailah;

10 And, hinei, there met him an isha with the attire of a zonah, and crafty of lev

11 —She is loud and soreret (rebellious, defiant); her raglayim abide not in her bais;

12 Now is she without, now in the rechovot, and lurketh in wait at every pinnah (corner)—

13 So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with a brazen ponem said unto him,

14 I have zivkhei shelamim vowed; this yom have I payed my neder.

15 Al ken (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 a bedspread of fine linen of Mitzrayim.

17 I have perfumed my mishkav (bed) with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us take our fill of dodim (loves) until boker; let us delight ourselves with ahavim (loves, pl. of intensity).

19 For the ish (man, i.e., husband) is not b’bais, he is gone a derech merachok (distant journey);

20 He hath taken a bag of kesef with him, and will come back to his bais at the appointed time.

21 By her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the smoothness of her sfatayim she seduced him.

22 He goeth after her and followeth immediately, as a shor (ox) goeth to tavach (stock yard, slaughter-house), or as the fettered to the musar of the fool;

23 Till a khetz (arrow) strike through his liver; as a tzippor hasteth to the pach (snare), and knoweth not that it is for his nefesh (life).

24 Pay heed unto me now therefore, O ye banim, and attend to the words of my peh (mouth).

25 Let not thine lev turn aside to her drakhim; go not astray in her netivot (trodden paths).

26 For she hath cast down many chalalim (wounded); indeed, many strong men have been slain by her.

27 Her bais is the drakhei Sheol, going down to the chadarim (chambers, rooms) of mavet (death). [T.N. The off-stage character here in chp 7 has been the cuckold. Because of her Ba’al affair, Hashem became the cuckold of Israel even as Hosea became the cuckold of Gomer.]