A Young Man Getting Caught Off Guard With a Seductress |
Proverbs 7:1-27 Proverbs [in Smaller Chunks] |
My son, keep my words with you & [store] up my commandments [within] you. Keep my commandments & live. [Keep] my Law as the apple of your eye. [Isaiah 55:3 [Lean] your ear & come to Me & hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.] |
[Tie] them upon your fingers & write them [within] your heart, [like a tablet.] Say to wisdom, You [are] my sister. And call understanding [a close relative, so] they may keep you from the [foreign] woman. From the [seductress who] flatters with her words. |
At the window of my house, I looked through my [lattice & saw] among the simple [minded] ones, I [noticed] among the [youth,] a young man [without] understanding, passing through the street near her corner. |
And he went [up the path] to her house, in the twilight [of] the evening, in the black, dark night. And [I saw] a woman, [with a deceitful] heart, met him there [dressed with the clothing] of a harlot. (She is loud & stubborn & her feet [don’t stay] in her [own] house. |
Now, she is [outside;] now [she’s] in the streets & lies in wait, [lurking] at every corner,) [like an ambush.] So, she caught him & kissed him, and with a [shameless] face [she] said to him, I have peace offerings with me. I have paid my vows [today.] |
Therefore, I came [out] to meet you & [looked intently for] your face & I have found you. I have [decorated] my bed with [covers] of tapestry, with carved works & with fine linen [from] Egypt. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, [aloe] & cinnamon. |
Come, let’s take [& satisfy] our love until the morning. Let us [comfort] ourselves with [sexual intimacy.] For the [head of the household] isn’t home & is on a long journey. He [has] taken a bag of money with him & will come home on the [scheduled] day. |
She caused him [to give in] with her [pleasant] speech & with flattering lips, she [seduced] him. He [went] after her [immediately, like] an ox goes to the slaughter, |
or [like] a fool to the [punishment in chains, until an arrow strikes] through his liver; [like] a bird [hurries] to the snare & [doesn’t] know that [the trap is to take] his life. |
Therefore, [pay attention] to me now, O [you] children & [heed] the words of my mouth. [Don’t let your] heart [turn aside] to her [road & don’t go] astray in her paths. For she has wounded & cast down many strong men [who] have been [killed] by her. |
[1 Kings 11:1-4 But king Solomon loved many [foreign] women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh. Women of the: Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians & Hittites. [From] the nations, which the Lord said to the children [people] of Israel, You shall not go into them [intimately] & neither shall they come into you. |
For surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon [clung] to these in love. And he had 700 wives & princesses & 300 [mistresses.] And his wives turned his heart away. For it [happened,] when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods & his heart wasn’t [blameless] with the Lord his God, [like] the heart of David, his father.] |
Her house is the [road] to Hell, going down to the chambers of death. |