{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro007_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro007_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro007_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/pro007.htm","summary":"This is a synoptic presentation of Proverbs 7 in four parallel ancient versions \u2014 the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate \u2014 belonging to the wisdom literature tradition of the Hebrew Bible. The chapter takes the form of a father's urgent warning to his son: keep wisdom's commandments close, treat Wisdom herself as a sister and intimate companion, so that she may guard you against the \"strange woman.\" The bulk of the text is a vivid dramatic narrative in which the father, watching from his window, observes a naive young man wandering into a seductress's neighborhood at nightfall; she intercepts him, kisses him, and entices him with perfumed bedsheets, Egyptian linen, peace-offering sacrifices already paid, and the convenient absence of her husband. The young man follows her to his ruin, compared in all four versions to an ox led to slaughter, a bird flying into a snare, and a deer struck through the liver by an arrow. The chapter closes by circling back to the father's exhortation: her house is the road to Sheol, its rooms the chambers of death. The distinctive feature of this presentation is the side-by-side display of the four textual traditions, allowing readers to compare how each version renders the same metaphors and moral stakes \u2014 of particular interest to students of biblical philology, translation history, or textual criticism.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 7","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1323}