Özdeyişler 7

¹Ey oğul, sözlerimi koru ve buyruklarımı kendi yanında sakla; ey oğul, Rab'be saygı duy ki güçlü olasın ve O'ndan başkasından korkma.

²Buyruklarımı koru ki yaşayasın, sözlerimi ise gözlerinin bebekleri gibi sakla.

³Onları parmaklarına bağla ve yüreğinin genişliği üzerine yaz.

⁴Bilgeliğe "Sen kız kardeşimsin" de ve sağduyuyu kendine yakın bir akraba edin.

⁵Öyle ki, seni yabancı ve kötü kadından, eğer seni hoşnutluk vaat eden sözleriyle kendine çekmeye çalışırsa korusunlar.

⁶Çünkü o, evinin penceresinden sokaklara doğru eğilip bakarken,

⁷Akılsız çocukların arasından, sağduyudan yoksun bir genci gördü.

⁸Genç, kadının evlerinin geçitlerindeki köşenin yanından geçiyor ve konuşarak ilerliyordu;

⁹Akşam karanlığında, geceye özgü bir sessizlik ve kasvet çöktüğünde.

¹⁰Derken kadın onunla karşılaştı; fahişe görünümündeydi ve gençlerin yüreklerini yerinden uçuran cinstendi.

¹¹Heyecanlı ve sefihti, ayakları evinde durmazdı.

¹²Bir süre dışarıda dolanır, bir süre meydanlarda, her köşebaşında pusuya yatardı.

¹³Sonra onu yakalayıp öptü ve utanmaz bir çehreyle ona şöyle dedi:

¹⁴"Bende bir esenlik kurbanı var, bugün adaklarımı yerine getiriyorum.

¹⁵Bu yüzden seninle karşılaşmaya çıktım, senin yüzünü arzulayarak nihayet seni buldum!

¹⁶Yatağımı şeritlerle gerdim, Mısır'dan gelen çift taraflı dokunmuş yaygılarla süsledim.

¹⁷Yatağıma safran, evime ise tarçın serptim.

¹⁸Gel, sabaha dek sevginin tadını çıkaralım, gel, aşkla sarmalanalım.

¹⁹Çünkü kocam evde değil, uzak bir yolculuğa çıktı.

²⁰Eline bir gümüş torbası alarak gitti, eve ancak birçok gün sonra dönecek."

²¹Onu bol sohbetiyle yoldan çıkardı ve dudaklarından çıkan ağlarla onu sürükledi.

²²Genç ise baştan çıkarılmış olarak hemen onun ardına düştü; kesime götürülen bir öküz gibi ve bağlara doğru giden bir köpek gibi,

²³Ya da okla ciğerinden vurulmuş bir geyik gibi; tuzağa doğru koşan bir kuş gibiydi, bunun kendi canı uğruna bir yarış olduğunu bilmeyerek.

²⁴Şimdi öyleyse, ey oğul, beni dinle ve ağzımın sözlerine kulak ver.

²⁵Yüreğin onun yollarına sapmasın.

²⁶Çünkü onun yaralayarak yere serdiği kişiler çoktur ve katlettikleri sayısızdır.

²⁷Onun evi ölüler diyarının yollarıdır, ölümün kilerlerine doğru indiren.

¹ΥΙΕ, φύλασσε ἐμοὺς λόγους, τὰς δὲ ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς κρύψον παρὰ σεαυτῷ. υἱέ, τίμα τὸν Κύριον, καὶ ἰσχύσεις, πλὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβοῦ ἄλλον.

²φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολάς, καὶ βιώσεις, τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων·

³περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις, ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου.

⁴εἶπον τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι, τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ·

⁵ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς, ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάλληται.

⁶ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα,

⁷ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν,

⁸παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς καὶ λαλοῦντα

⁹ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ, ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ ᾖ καὶ γνοφώδης,

¹⁰ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ, εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν, ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας.

¹¹ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστι καὶ ἄσωτος, ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς·

¹²χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται, χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει.

¹³εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν, ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ·

¹⁴θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστι, σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου·

¹⁵ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς συνάντησίν σοι, ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον εὕρηκά σε.

¹⁶κειρίαις τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου, ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπ᾿ Αἰγύπτου·

¹⁷διέρρακα τὴν κοίτην μου κροκίνῳ, τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ·

¹⁸ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου, δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι·

¹⁹οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ, πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακρὰν

²⁰ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, δι᾿ ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

²¹ἀπεπλάνησε δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν.

²²ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς, ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμοὺς

²³ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ, σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα, οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει.

²⁴νῦν οὖν, υἱέ, ἄκουέ μου καὶ πρόσεχε ρήμασι στόματός μου·

²⁵μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου,

²⁶πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκε, καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν·

²⁷ὁδοὶ ᾅδου ὁ οἶκος αὐτῆς κατάγουσαι εἰς τὰ ταμιεῖα τοῦ θανάτου.

¹[My] son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. [My] son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:

²keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [thine] eyes.

³And bind them on thy fingers, and write [them] on the table of thine heart.

⁴Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

⁵that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

⁶For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

⁷passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

⁸and speaking, in the dark of the evening,

⁹when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:

¹⁰and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

¹¹And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.

¹²For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

¹³Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

¹⁴I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:

¹⁵therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; [and] I have found thee.

¹⁶I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.

¹⁷I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

¹⁸Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.

¹⁹For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,

²⁰having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.

²¹So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].

²²And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

²³and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.

²⁴Now then, [my] son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:

²⁶for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.

²⁷Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.