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Proverbs 7

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1 υἱέ φύλασσε ἐμοὺς λόγους τὰς δὲ ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς κρύψον παρὰ σεαυτῷ υἱέ τίμα τὸν κύριον καὶ ἰσχύσεις πλὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβοῦ ἄλλον 2 φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολάς καὶ βιώσεις τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων 3 περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου 4 εἶπον τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ 5 ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάληται 6 ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα 7 ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν 8 παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς 9 καὶ λαλοῦντα ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ ᾖ καὶ γνοφώδης 10 ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας 11 ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστιν καὶ ἄσωτος ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς 12 χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει 13 εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ 14 θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστιν σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου 15 ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς συνάντησίν σοι ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον εὕρηκά σε 16 κειρίαις τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπ' Αἰγύπτου 17 διέρραγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κρόκῳ τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ 18 ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι 19 οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακρὰν 20 ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ δι' ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ 21 ἀπεπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν 22 ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμοὺς 23 ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει 24 νῦν οὖν υἱέ ἄκουέ μου καὶ πρόσεχε ῥήμασιν στόματός μου 25 μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου 26 πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκεν καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν 27 ὁδοὶ ᾅδου ὁ οἶκος αὐτῆς κατάγουσαι εἰς τὰ ταμίεια τοῦ θανάτου

y son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with you. Son, 2 Keep my commandments, and you shall live: and my law as the apple of your eye: 3 Bind it upon your fingers, write it upon the tables of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom: You are my sister: and call prudence your friend, 5 that she may keep you from the woman that is not yours, and from the stranger who sweetens her words. 6 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice, 7 and I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man, 8 who passes through the street by the corner, and goes near the way of her house, 9 in the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night. 10 And behold a woman meets him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering, 11 not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home, 12 now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. 13 And catching the young man, she kisses him, and with an impudent face, flatters, saying: 14 I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows. 15 Therefore I have come out to meet you, desirous to see you, and I have found you. 16 I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear. 19 For my husband is not at home, he has gone a very long journey. 20 He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon. 21 She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. 22 Immediately he follows her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, 23 till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knows not that his life is in danger. 24 Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not your mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be deceived with her paths. 26 For she has cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

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.