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Υἱέ, φύλασσε ἐμοὺς λόγους,

τὰς δὲ ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς κρύψον παρὰ σεαυτῷ·

aυἱέ, τίμα τὸν κύριον καὶ ἰσχύσεις,

πλὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβοῦ ἄλλον.

φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς καὶ βιώσεις,

τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων·

περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις,

¹²

ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου.

εἰπὸν τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι,

τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ,

ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς,

ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάληται.

ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας

παρακύπτουσα,

ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν,

παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς

καὶ λαλοῦντα

ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ,

ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ, εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν.

ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ καὶ γνοφώδης,

ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας.

ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστιν καὶ ἄσωτος,

ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς·

χρόνον γὰρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται,

χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει.

εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν,

ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ

Θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστιν·

σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου·

ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς ὑπάντησίν σοι,

ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον, εὕρηκά σε.

κειρία τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου,

ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπʼ Αἰγύπτου·

διέρραγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κρόκῳ,

ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φίλας ἔρωτι. ὄρθρου,

τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ

δεῦρο καὶ ἐνκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι.

οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ,

πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακράν,

⁴⁶

ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ,

δἰ ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

ἀπεπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ,

βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν·

ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς,

ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται,

καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμούς,

ἡ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ·

σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα,

οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει.

νῦν οὗν, υἱέ, ἄκουέ μου, καὶ πρόσεχε ῥήμασιν στόματός μου.

μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου·

πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκεν,

καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν·

ὁδοὶ ᾅδου ὁ οἶκος αὐτῆς.

κατάγουσαι εἰς τὰ ταμεῖα τοῦ θανάτου.

Proverbs. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. United States. 2017.

Funding provided by Harvard Library Arcadia Fund.

Current edition First1KGreek

Παροιμίαι (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 2: I Chronicles-Tobit. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896.)

Translations (1)

Proverbs Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 7 focus

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

Therefore I came out to meet you, To diligently seek your face, And I have found you.

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

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

Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

For she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

Notes on the current edition

Proverbs

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3. B

4. U+05D0A

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