Proverbs · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Proverbs 7 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Υιέ μου, φύλαττε τους λόγους μου και ταμίευσον τας εντολάς μου παρά σεαυτώ.
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Φύλαττε τας εντολάς μου, και θέλεις ζήσει· και τον νόμον μου, ως την κόρην των οφθαλμών σου.
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Δέσον αυτά επί τους δακτύλους σου, εγχάραξον αυτά επί την πλάκα της καρδίας σου.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Ειπέ προς την σοφίαν; συ είσαι αδελφή μου· και κάλεσον την φρόνησιν συγγενή σου·
4 Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
5 διά να σε φυλάττωσιν από ξένης γυναικός, από αλλοτρίας κολακευούσης διά των λόγων αυτής.
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 Επειδή από του παραθύρου της οικίας μου έκυψα διά του δικτυωτού μου·
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 και είδον μεταξύ των αφρόνων, παρετήρησα μεταξύ των νεανίσκων, νέον ενδεή φρενών·
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 όστις διέβαινε διά της πλατείας, πλησίον της γωνίας αυτής, και διήρχετο την οδόν προς την οικίαν αυτής,
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
9 εν τω εσπερινώ σκότει της ημέρας, εν τω σκοτασμώ της νυκτός και τω γνόφω·
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10 και ιδού, συναπαντά αυτόν γυνή έχουσα σχήμα πορνικόν, και καρδίαν δολιόφρονα,
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 φλύαρος και αναιδής· οι πόδες αυτής δεν μένουσιν εν τω οίκω αυτής·
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 τώρα είναι έξω, τώρα εν ταις πλατείαις, και ενεδρεύει πλησίον πάσης γωνίας.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 Και πιάνει αυτόν και φιλεί αυτόν και με αναιδές πρόσωπον λέγει προς αυτόν,
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
14 Έχω θυσίας ειρηνικάς· σήμερον απέδωκα τας ευχάς μου·
14 “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
15 διά τούτο εξήλθον εις απάντησίν σου, ποθούσα το πρόσωπόν σου, και σε εύρηκα·
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
16 έστρωσα την κλίνην μου με πέπλους, με τάπητας πεποικιλμένους, με νήματα της Αιγύπτου·
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17 εθυμίασα την κλίνην μου με σμύρναν, αλόην και κινάμωμον·
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 ελθέ, ας μεθυσθώμεν από έρωτος μέχρι της αυγής· ας εντρυφήσωμεν εις έρωτας·
18 Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
19 διότι δεν είναι ο ανήρ εν τη οικία αυτού, υπήγεν εις οδόν μακράν·
19 For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
20 έλαβε βαλάντιον αργυρίου εν τη χειρί αυτού· εν ωρισμένω καιρώ θέλει επανέλθει εις την οικίαν αυτού.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
21 Διά της πολλής αυτής τέχνης απεπλάνησεν αυτόν· διά της κολακείας των χειλέων αυτής είλκυσεν αυτόν.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
22 Ευθύς ακολουθεί αυτήν κατόπιν, καθώς ο βους υπάγει εις την σφαγήν, ή καθώς η έλαφος πηδά εις τον βρόχον,
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 εωσού βέλος διαπεράση το ήπαρ αυτής· καθώς το πτηνόν σπεύδει εις την παγίδα και δεν εξεύρει ότι είναι εναντίον της ζωής αυτού.
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 Τώρα λοιπόν ακούσατέ μου, τέκνα, και προσέχετε εις τους λόγους του στόματός μου.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 Ας μη εκκλίνη εις τας οδούς αυτής η καρδία σου, μη παρεκτραπής εις τας τρίβους αυτής.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
26 Διότι πολλούς έκαμε να πέσωσι πεπληγωμένοι, και δυνατοί είναι οι φονευθέντες υπ' αυτής.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Οδοί άδου είναι ο οίκος αυτής, καταβαίνουσαι εις τα ταμεία του θανάτου.
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
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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).
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).
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)