Verse 7
Proverbs 7:7
GOD'S WORD Translation
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I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אֵ֤רֶא בַ/פְּתָאיִ֗ם אָ֘בִ֤ינָה בַ/בָּנִ֗ים נַ֣עַר חֲסַר לֵֽב
English Translation
And I saw suddenly, I understood among the children, a youth lacking heart.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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My son, keep my words.
Lay up my commandments within you.
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Keep my commandments and live!
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Bind them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Call understanding your relative,
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that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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For at the window of my house,
I looked out through my lattice.
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I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
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passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,
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in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
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She is loud and defiant.
Her feet don’t stay in her house.
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Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurking at every corner.
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So she caught him, and kissed him.
With an impudent face she said to him:
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“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
Today I have paid my vows.
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Therefore I came out to meet you,
to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
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For my husband isn’t at home.
He has gone on a long journey.
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He has taken a bag of money with him.
He will come home at the full moon.”
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With persuasive words, she led him astray.
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
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He followed her immediately,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
as a fool stepping into a noose.
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Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
as a bird hurries to the snare,
and doesn’t know that it w...
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Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,
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for she has thrown down many wounded.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
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Her house is the way to Sheol,
going down to the rooms of death.
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