Proverbiorum 7
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
1[Fili mi, custodi sermones meos, et præcepta mea reconde tibi. Fili,
1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2serva mandata mea, et vives; et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui:
2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3liga eam in digitis tuis, scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui.
3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4Dic sapientiæ: Soror mea es, et prudentiam voca amicam tuam:
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5ut custodiant te a muliere extranea, et ab aliena quæ verba sua dulcia facit.
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6De fenestra enim domus meæ per cancellos prospexi,
6¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7et video parvulos; considero vecordem juvenem,
7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8qui transit per plateam juxta angulum et prope viam domus illius graditur:
8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9in obscuro, advesperascente die, in noctis tenebris et caligine.
9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10Et ecce occurrit illi mulier ornatu meretricio, præparata ad capiendas animas: garrula et vaga,
10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11quietis impatiens, nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis;
11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12nunc foris, nunc in plateis, nunc juxta angulos insidians.
12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13Apprehensumque deosculatur juvenem, et procaci vultu blanditur, dicens:
13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14Victimas pro salute vovi; hodie reddidi vota mea:
14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum, desiderans te videre, et reperi.
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16Intexui funibus lectulum meum; stravi tapetibus pictis ex Ægypto:
16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works , with fine linen of Egypt.
17aspersi cubile meum myrrha, et aloë, et cinnamomo.
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Veni, inebriemur uberibus, et fruamur cupitis amplexibus donec illucescat dies.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19Non est enim vir in domo sua: abiit via longissima:
19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20sacculum pecuniæ secum tulit; in die plenæ lunæ reversurus est in domum suam.
20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21Irretivit eum multis sermonibus, et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum.
21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22Statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam, et quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur:
22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23donec transfigat sagitta jecur ejus, velut si avis festinet ad laqueum, et nescit quod de periculo animæ illius agitur.
23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi me, et attende verbis oris mei.
24¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus;
25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26multos enim vulneratos dejecit, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea.
26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27Viæ inferi domus ejus, penetrantes in interiora mortis.]
27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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