Proverbs 7
1 Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom.
6 In an example of his own experience, he shews,
10 the cunning of a harlot;
22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton.
24 He dehorteth from such wickedness.
child <01121> [My son.]
keep <08104> [keep.]
keeping <06845> [lay.]
Keep <08104> [Keep.]
prized <0380> [as the.]
As the pupil of the eye, the hole or the opening of the uveous coat, or iris, through which the rays of light pass, and falling upon the retina, there depict every object in its natural colour, as upon a piece of white paper. Now the pupil of the eye being essentially necessary to sight, and easily injured, it is not only, in common with the other parts, deeply entrenched in the skull, ramparted with the forehead and cheek bones, defended by the eyebrows, eyelids, and eyelashes, and placed so as to be best protected by the hands, but, by a wonderful mechanism, is contracted or dilated by the muscular power of the iris, without which an excess of light would cause instant blindness.
Say <0559> [Say.]
sister <0269> [Thou.]
window <02474> [at the.]
lattice <0822> [casement.]
{Eshnav,} rather a lattice, so called from the Arabic {shanaba,} " to be cool," because of its use in keeping the apartments cool.
naive <06612> [the simple.]
youths <01121> [the youths. Heb. the sons. void.]
twilight <05399> [the twilight.]
evening <03117> [evening. Heb. evening of the day.]
dressed <07897> [the attire.]
intent <05341> [subtil.]
loud <01993> [loud.]
<07272> [her feet.]
grabbed <02388> [she.]
bold expression ... said <06440 0559 05810> [with an impudent face said. Heb. she strengthened her face and said.]
fresh meat <08002 02077> [I have peace offerings with me. Heb. Peace-offerings are upon me.]
today <03117> [this.]
spread <07234> [decked.]
richly ... fabric <0330> [fine.]
perfumed <05130> [perfumed.]
myrrh <04753> [with.]
husband <0376> [the good-man.]
gone <01980> [he.]
<03027> [with him. Heb. in his hand. the day appointed. or, the new moon.]
<07230> [With her.]
compelled <05080> [forced.]
Suddenly <06597> [straightway. Heb. suddenly. as an.]
trapper's snare <0191> [as a.]
Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders, "as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver;" and Dr. Hunt, "Or as a hart boundeth into the toils, till a dart strike through his liver." The LXX., Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, concur in this interpretation. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of; and this creature, of all others, was the most proper to be noticed on this occasion; for the usual representation which the Egyptians made of a man overthrown by flattery and fair speeches was the picture of a heart captivated and ensnared by the sound of music.
<04148> [the correction.]
arrow <02671> [a dart.]
bird <06833> [as a bird.]
know <03045> [knoweth.]
sons <01121> [O.]
heart <03820> [thine.]
wander <08582> [go.]
