Proverbs 7

يَا ابْنِي، احْفَظْ كَلاَمِي وَاذْخَرْ وَصَايَايَ عِنْدَكَ.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

احْفَظْ وَصَايَايَ فَتَحْيَا، وَشَرِيعَتِي كَحَدَقَةِ عَيْنِكَ.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

اُرْبُطْهَا عَلَى أَصَابِعِكَ. اكْتُبْهَا عَلَى لَوْحِ قَلْبِكَ.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

قُلْ لِلْحِكْمَةِ: «أَنْتِ أُخْتِي» وَادْعُ الْفَهْمَ ذَا قَرَابَةٍ.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

لِتَحْفَظَكَ مِنَ الْمَرْأَةِ الأَجْنَبِيَّةِ، مِنَ الْغَرِيبَةِ الْمَلِقَةِ بِكَلاَمِهَا.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

لأَنِّي مِنْ كُوَّةِ بَيْتِي، مِنْ وَرَاءِ شُبَّاكِي تَطَلَّعْتُ،

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

فَرَأَيْتُ بَيْنَ الْجُهَّالِ، لاَحَظْتُ بَيْنَ الْبَنِينَ غُلاَمًا عَدِيمَ الْفَهْمِ،

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

عَابِرًا فِي الشَّارِعِ عِنْدَ زَاوِيَتِهَا، وَصَاعِدًا فِي طَرِيقِ بَيْتِهَا.

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

فِي الْعِشَاءِ، فِي مَسَاءِ الْيَوْمِ، فِي حَدَقَةِ اللَّيْلِ وَالظَّلاَمِ.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

وَإِذَا بِامْرَأَةٍ اسْتَقْبَلَتْهُ فِي زِيِّ زَانِيَةٍ، وَخَبِيثَةِ الْقَلْبِ.

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

صَخَّابَةٌ هِيَ وَجَامِحَةٌ. فِي بَيْتِهَا لاَ تَسْتَقِرُّ قَدَمَاهَا.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

تَارَةً فِي الْخَارِجِ، وَأُخْرَى فِي الشَّوَارِعِ، وَعِنْدَ كُلِّ زَاوِيَةٍ تَكْمُنُ.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

فَأَمْسَكَتْهُ وَقَبَّلَتْهُ. أَوْقَحَتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ لَهُ:

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

«عَلَيَّ ذَبَائِحُ السَّلاَمَةِ. الْيَوْمَ أَوْفَيْتُ نُذُورِي.

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

فَلِذلِكَ خَرَجْتُ لِلِقَائِكَ، لأَطْلُبَ وَجْهَكَ حَتَّى أَجِدَكَ.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

بِالدِّيبَاجِ فَرَشْتُ سَرِيرِي، بِمُوَشَّى كَتَّانٍ مِنْ مِصْرَ.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

عَطَّرْتُ فِرَاشِي بِمُرّ وَعُودٍ وَقِرْفَةٍ.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

هَلُمَّ نَرْتَوِ وُدًّا إِلَى الصَّبَاحِ. نَتَلَذَّذُ بِالْحُبِّ.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

لأَنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيْسَ فِي الْبَيْتِ. ذَهَبَ فِي طَرِيق بَعِيدَةٍ.

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

أَخَذَ صُرَّةَ الْفِضَّةِ بِيَدِهِ. يَوْمَ الْهِلاَلِ يَأْتِي إِلَى بَيْتِهِ».

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

أَغْوَتْهُ بِكَثْرَةِ فُنُونِهَا، بِمَلْثِ شَفَتَيْهَا طَوَّحَتْهُ.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

ذَهَبَ وَرَاءَهَا لِوَقْتِهِ، كَثَوْرٍ يَذْهَبُ إِلَى الذَّبْحِ، أَوْ كَالْغَبِيِّ إِلَى قَيْدِ الْقِصَاصِ،

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

حَتَّى يَشُقَّ سَهْمٌ كَبِدَهُ. كَطَيْرٍ يُسْرِعُ إِلَى الْفَخِّ وَلاَ يَدْرِي أَنَّهُ لِنَفْسِهِ.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

وَالآنَ أَيُّهَا الأَبْنَاءُ اسْمَعُوا لِي وَأَصْغُوا لِكَلِمَاتِ فَمِي:

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

لاَ يَمِلْ قَلْبُكَ إِلَى طُرُقِهَا، وَلاَ تَشْرُدْ فِي مَسَالِكِهَا.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

لأَنَّهَا طَرَحَتْ كَثِيرِينَ جَرْحَى، وَكُلُّ قَتْلاَهَا أَقْوِيَاءُ.

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

طُرُقُ الْهَاوِيَةِ بَيْتُهَا، هَابِطَةٌ إِلَى خُدُورِ الْمَوْتِ.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.