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Proverbs 7 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
5 That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9 In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot’s attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.
14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
15 Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
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.
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.
18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
21 She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 Immediately he followeth 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,
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.
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, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
26 For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
Cross references (25)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Proverbs 1:8; Revelation 1:3; Luke 11:28; Proverbs 2:1–7; John 14:23
  2. 2 Psalm 17:8; Leviticus 18:5; Proverbs 4:4; 1 John 2:3–4; John 14:21
  3. 3 Deuteronomy 11:18–20; Proverbs 3:3; Deuteronomy 6:8–9; Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 3:3
  4. 4 Proverbs 2:2–4; Proverbs 4:6–8; Job 17:14; Song of Songs 8:1; Matthew 12:49–50
  5. 5 Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 5:3
  6. 6 Genesis 26:8; Judges 5:28; 2 Samuel 6:16
  7. 7 Proverbs 6:32; Proverbs 1:22; Psalm 119:130; Proverbs 9:4; Matthew 15:16
  8. 8 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Proverbs 5:8; Proverbs 4:14–15; Jude 23
  9. 9 Romans 13:12–14; Job 24:13–15; Genesis 39:11; Ephesians 5:11; Exodus 12:6
  10. 10 2 Corinthians 11:2–3; Isaiah 3:16–24; 1 Timothy 2:9; 2 Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30
  11. 11 Proverbs 9:13; Titus 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:13–14; Proverbs 31:10–31; Proverbs 25:24
  12. 12 Proverbs 23:28; Proverbs 9:14; Revelation 18:3; Jeremiah 2:33; Jeremiah 2:36
  13. 13 Numbers 25:6–8; Genesis 39:12; Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 2:4; Proverbs 21:29
  14. 14 Proverbs 21:27; Leviticus 7:11; Proverbs 17:1; John 18:28; Proverbs 15:8
  15. 16 Isaiah 19:9; Ezekiel 27:7; Revelation 2:22; Proverbs 31:22; 1 Kings 10:28
  16. 17 Psalm 45:8; Isaiah 57:7–9; Song of Songs 4:13–14; Exodus 30:23; Song of Songs 3:6
  17. 19 Matthew 20:11; Luke 12:45–46; Mark 13:34–36; Luke 12:39; Matthew 24:48
  18. 20 2 Chronicles 2:4
  19. 21 Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 7:5; 2 Kings 4:8; Luke 24:29; Psalm 12:2
  20. 22 Job 13:27; Acts 16:24; Jeremiah 20:2; Acts 14:13
  21. 23 Ecclesiastes 9:12; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 1:17; Numbers 25:8–9
  22. 24 Proverbs 5:7; Proverbs 4:1; 1 John 2:1; Proverbs 8:32–33; Galatians 4:19
  23. 25 Proverbs 5:8; Isaiah 53:6; Proverbs 6:25; Matthew 5:28; Psalm 119:176
  24. 26 Nehemiah 13:26; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Proverbs 6:33; 1 Kings 11:1–2
  25. 27 Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 9:18; Revelation 22:15; Proverbs 2:18–19; Ecclesiastes 7:26

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 7:3 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture V)

    Take heed then, brethren, and hold fast the traditions which ye now receive, and write them an the table of your heart.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)