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Proverbs 7 Geneva Bible (1599)

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1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
19 For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
21 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
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 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he 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 Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
26 For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the 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).

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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).

  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)