Proverbs · Unlocked Literal Bible
Proverbs 7 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within yourself.
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commands and live and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
5 in order to keep yourself from the adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her smooth words.
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 At the window of my house I was looking out through the lattice.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 I looked at the naive people, and I noticed among the young men a youth who had no sense.
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 That young man passed down the street near her corner, and he went toward her house.
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9 It was twilight, in the evening of the day, at the time of night and darkness.
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 There a woman met him, dressed like a prostitute, with a false heart.
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 She was loud and wayward; her feet did not stay at home.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 Now in the streets, then in the market place, and at every corner she waited in ambush.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, with a strong face she said to him,
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 “I made my peace offering today, I paid my vows,
14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
15 so came I out to meet you, to eagerly seek your face, and I have found you.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have spread coverings on my bed, colored linens from Egypt.
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us take great pleasure in acts of love.
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 his house; he has gone on a long journey.
19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 He took a bag of money with him; he will return on 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 With much talk she turned him; with her smooth lips she misled him.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 He went after her suddenly like an ox going to slaughter, like a deer caught in a trap,
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 until an arrow pierces through its liver. He was like a bird rushing into a snare. He did not know that it would cost his life.
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, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to the words of my mouth.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 May your heart not turn aside onto her paths; do not be led astray onto her paths.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
26 She has caused many people to fall down pierced; her dead victims are very many.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Her house is on the paths to Sheol; they go down to the dark bedrooms 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 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
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).
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)