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⌂ ← PRO 7:0b–7:23 → ║ ©

Warning Against the Strange Woman

Warning Against the Strange Woman

store my commandments with you.
2  and my teaching like the[fn]
3  write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 [fn] “you are my sister,” and you shall call insight,[fn] “[fn]
5 In order to guard yourself from[fn] from the foreigner who[fn]
6  through my lattice, I looked down.
7  I observed among the youth,
a young man lacking[fn]
8 [fn] her corner, and he takes the road to her house,
9 the day’s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.
10 comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute[fn] and[fn]
11  her feet do not stay at her house.
12 [fn] every corner she lies in wait.
13 [fn] him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,
14 are upon me;[fn] I completed my vows.
15 [fn] I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 With coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt;
17 with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 our fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love.
19 [fn] in his home; he has gone on a[fn]
20  for on the day of the full moon he will come home.”
21  with her smooth lips she compels him.
22  like an ox to the slaughter he goes,
and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
23 [fn] like a bird rushing into a snare,
but he does not know that[fn]

?:? A single word meaning “pupil of the eye”

?:? Hebrew “the wisdom”

?:? Hebrew “the insight”

?:? Literally “one who is known.” To “know” is often a euphemism for intercourse. Therefore “intimate friend” may also be read “lover.”

?:? Literally “a strange woman”

?:? Literally “causes to be smooth her words”

?:? Literally “heart”

?:? Literally “at the place of”

?:? Or “whore”

?:? Literally “secret of heart”

?:? Literally “at the place of”

?:? Or “strengthened”

?:? Literally “the day”

?:? Hebrew “thus”

?:? Or “husband”

?:? Literally “a journey from far”

?:? Literally “heaviness,” often referring to the liver

?:? Literally “it is against his life”

⌂ ← PRO 7:0b–7:23 → ║ ©

PRO C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31