Proverb Chapter 7

Prov 7

Proverbs of David continues, training Solomon for the throne

1 My Son, you must preserve my utterances and conceal my commandments within you.

2 preserve the commands for you to live because the law (Torah) is like the pupil/apple of the eye.

3 connect your heart to things written upon the tablet with HIS Finger:

4 as a sister will call out to her kinswoman, so is wisdom to understanding. 

5 keep yourself from strange woman and foreigners who share utterances:

6 by the window of my house, through an aperture/loophole, I could lean out to peep at things;

7 My son, I have seen a simple/gullible young man who is destitute in his mind/heart to understand things;- 

8 - he crosses over the market-street to other side, to prevent pacing up the road from his house; - 

9 -he mingles all day unto the twilight and even unto the night, when the pupil of his eyes is in the duskiness;

10 even if he could guard his heart, there will be an encounter with a woman positioned for prostitution, - 

11 - - who is making loud sound/clamoring, so that he can turn away - his feet from his house and dwell with her.

12 at one time, they will be outside in the broad-streets, and at other time, they will be lurking at the side of a corner,

13 - fasten upon him with kissing, as she says with seriously hardened face: 

14 - it is a day of peace offering as a sacrifice for my vow to be safe.

15 - so I get up early and go out to find those things, only to have encountered with your face,

16 - my bed is carved block, my fabric-sheet is a twisted-yarn from Egypt and there is floor rug/carpet - -

17 - in my bedchamber, also waving to and fro, are myrrh and cinnamon perfumes in my (nomadic)-tents, --

18 -- my Uncle who loved to lazed himself around, has walked away to satisfy his thirst till morning, 

19 and all the men in the house have walked far away to their ways;

20 - taking, in their hands, bags with money, and they will be coming to the house when days are fully covered. 

21 upon his abundant lessons/learnings; he will tilt towards things shared through her lips and be banished/pushed out.

22 even after all the corrections, a fool will still suddenly walk around her with her tinkling anklets/bangles, like an ox to a slaughter.

23 - all souls should know, that a bird that hasten to a snare, its liver will be pierced with arrow.

24 My son, listen and hearken to the utterances of my mouth:

25 should your heart deviate/behave recklessly on the way, you will go astray from your track;

26 those who make space for such have been slain in abundance, - and the powerful ones with huge bones had fallen down;

27 from inner-chamber of their house, only for them to be on the way to a place of death and descend to sheol/hades.