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Proverbs
Offers wisdom and advice on how to live a good and meaningful life.
Chapter 7
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1
KJV:
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Geneva:
My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.
2
KJV:
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Geneva:
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
3
KJV:
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Geneva:
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4
KJV:
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Geneva:
Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
5
KJV:
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Geneva:
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
6
KJV:
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Geneva:
As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7
KJV:
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Geneva:
And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8
KJV:
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Geneva:
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
9
KJV:
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Geneva:
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
10
KJV:
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Geneva:
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
11
KJV:
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Geneva:
(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
12
KJV:
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Geneva:
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
13
KJV:
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Geneva:
So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
14
KJV:
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Geneva:
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
15
KJV:
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Geneva:
Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
16
KJV:
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Geneva:
I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
17
KJV:
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Geneva:
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18
KJV:
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Geneva:
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
19
KJV:
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Geneva:
For mine husbande is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
20
KJV:
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Geneva:
He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
21
KJV:
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Geneva:
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
22
KJV:
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Geneva:
And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
23
KJV:
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Geneva:
Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
24
KJV:
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Geneva:
Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
25
KJV:
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Geneva:
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
26
KJV:
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Geneva:
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, & the strong men are all slaine by her.
27
KJV:
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Geneva:
Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.
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