Proverbs · Geneva Bible (1599)
Proverbs 7 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
1 HIJO mío, guarda mis razones, y encierra contigo mis mandamientos.
2 Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
2 Guarda mis mandamientos, y vivirás; y mi ley como las niñas de tus ojos.
3 Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
3 Lígalos á tus dedos; escríbelos en la tabla de tu corazón.
4 Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
4 Di á la sabiduría: Tú eres mi hermana; y á la inteligencia llama parienta:
5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
5 Para que te guarden de la mujer ajena, y de la extraña que ablanda sus palabras.
6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
6 Porque mirando yo por la ventana de mi casa, por mi celosía,
7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
7 Vi entre los simples, consideré entre los jóvenes, un mancebo falto de entendimiento,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
8 El cual pasaba por la calle, junto á la esquina de aquella, é iba camino de su casa,
9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
9 A la tarde del día, ya que oscurecía, en la oscuridad y tiniebla de la noche.
10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
10 Y he aquí, una mujer que le sale al encuentro con atavío de ramera, astuta de corazón,
11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
11 Alborotadora y rencillosa, sus pies no pueden estar en casa;
12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
12 Unas veces de fuera, ó bien por las plazas, acechando por todas las esquinas.
13 So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
13 Y traba de él, y bésalo; desvergonzó su rostro, y díjole:
14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
14 Sacrificios de paz había prometido, hoy he pagado mis votos;
15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
15 Por tanto he salido á encontrarte, buscando diligentemente tu rostro, y te he hallado.
16 I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
16 Con paramentos he ataviado mi cama, recamados con cordoncillo de Egipto.
17 I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
17 He sahumado mi cámara con mirra, áloes, y cinamomo.
18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
18 Ven, embriaguémonos de amores hasta la mañana; alegrémonos en amores.
19 For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
19 Porque el marido no está en casa, hase ido á un largo viaje:
20 He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
20 El saco de dinero llevó en su mano; el día señalado volverá á su casa.
21 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
21 Rindiólo con la mucha suavidad de sus palabras, obligóle con la blandura de sus labios.
22 And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
22 Vase en pos de ella luego, como va el buey al degolladero, y como el loco á las prisiones para ser castigado;
23 Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
23 Como el ave que se apresura al lazo, y no sabe que es contra su vida, hasta que la saeta traspasó su hígado.
24 Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
24 Ahora pues, hijos, oidme, y estad atentos á las razones de mi boca.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
25 No se aparte á sus caminos tu corazón; no yerres en sus veredas.
26 For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
26 Porque á muchos ha hecho caer heridos; y aun los más fuertes han sido muertos por ella.
27 Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.
27 Caminos del sepulcro son su casa, que descienden á las cámaras de la muerte.
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 1:8; Revelation 1:3; Luke 11:28; Proverbs 2:1–7; John 14:23
- 2 Psalm 17:8; Leviticus 18:5; Proverbs 4:4; 1 John 2:3–4; John 14:21
- 3 Deuteronomy 11:18–20; Proverbs 3:3; Deuteronomy 6:8–9; Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 3:3
- 4 Proverbs 2:2–4; Proverbs 4:6–8; Job 17:14; Song of Songs 8:1; Matthew 12:49–50
- 5 Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 5:3
- 6 Genesis 26:8; Judges 5:28; 2 Samuel 6:16
- 7 Proverbs 6:32; Proverbs 1:22; Psalm 119:130; Proverbs 9:4; Matthew 15:16
- 8 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Proverbs 5:8; Proverbs 4:14–15; Jude 23
- 9 Romans 13:12–14; Job 24:13–15; Genesis 39:11; Ephesians 5:11; Exodus 12:6
- 10 2 Corinthians 11:2–3; Isaiah 3:16–24; 1 Timothy 2:9; 2 Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30
- 11 Proverbs 9:13; Titus 2:5; 1 Timothy 5:13–14; Proverbs 31:10–31; Proverbs 25:24
- 12 Proverbs 23:28; Proverbs 9:14; Revelation 18:3; Jeremiah 2:33; Jeremiah 2:36
- 13 Numbers 25:6–8; Genesis 39:12; Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 2:4; Proverbs 21:29
- 14 Proverbs 21:27; Leviticus 7:11; Proverbs 17:1; John 18:28; Proverbs 15:8
- 16 Isaiah 19:9; Ezekiel 27:7; Revelation 2:22; Proverbs 31:22; 1 Kings 10:28
- 17 Psalm 45:8; Isaiah 57:7–9; Song of Songs 4:13–14; Exodus 30:23; Song of Songs 3:6
- 19 Matthew 20:11; Luke 12:45–46; Mark 13:34–36; Luke 12:39; Matthew 24:48
- 20 2 Chronicles 2:4
- 21 Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 7:5; 2 Kings 4:8; Luke 24:29; Psalm 12:2
- 22 Job 13:27; Acts 16:24; Jeremiah 20:2; Acts 14:13
- 23 Ecclesiastes 9:12; Proverbs 9:18; Proverbs 1:17; Numbers 25:8–9
- 24 Proverbs 5:7; Proverbs 4:1; 1 John 2:1; Proverbs 8:32–33; Galatians 4:19
- 25 Proverbs 5:8; Isaiah 53:6; Proverbs 6:25; Matthew 5:28; Psalm 119:176
- 26 Nehemiah 13:26; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Proverbs 6:33; 1 Kings 11:1–2
- 27 Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 9:18; Revelation 22:15; Proverbs 2:18–19; Ecclesiastes 7:26
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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).
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“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).
Take heed then, brethren, and hold fast the traditions which ye now receive, and write them an the table of your heart.
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