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7 LIBER PROVERBIORUM SALOMONIS Proverbs - Wycliffe Bible(14c) Proverbs - Douay Rheims(17c) Reference
1 Fili mi, custodi sermones meos, et pr?cepta mea reconde tibi. Fili,  
2 serva mandata mea, et vives; et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui:  
3 liga eam in digitis tuis, scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui.  
4 Dic sapienti?: Soror mea es, et prudentiam voca amicam tuam:  
5 ut custodiant te a muliere extranea, et ab aliena qu? verba sua dulcia facit.  
6 De fenestra enim domus me? per cancellos prospexi, The immoral woman. Pr.7.6-27
7 et video parvulos; considero vecordem juvenem,  
8 qui transit per plateam juxta angulum et prope viam domus illius graditur:  
9 in obscuro, advesperascente die, in noctis tenebris et caligine.  
10 Et ecce occurrit illi mulier ornatu meretricio, pr?parata ad capiendas animas: garrula et vaga,  
11 quietis impatiens, nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis;  
12 nunc foris, nunc in plateis, nunc juxta angulos insidians.  
13 Apprehensumque deosculatur juvenem, et procaci vultu blanditur, dicens:  
14 Victimas pro salute vovi; hodie reddidi vota mea:  
15 idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum, desiderans te videre, et reperi.  
16 Intexui funibus lectulum meum; stravi tapetibus pictis ex ?gypto:  
17 aspersi cubile meum myrrha, et alo?, et cinnamomo.  
18 Veni, inebriemur uberibus, et fruamur cupitis amplexibus donec illucescat dies.  
19 Non est enim vir in domo sua: abiit via longissima:  
20 sacculum pecuni? secum tulit; in die plen? lun? reversurus est in domum suam.  
21 Irretivit eum multis sermonibus, et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum.  
22 Statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam, et quasi agnus lasciviens, et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus traha  
23 donec transfigat sagitta jecur ejus, velut si avis festinet ad laqueum, et nescit quod de periculo anim? illius agitur  
24 Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi me, et attende verbis oris mei.  
25 Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus;  
26 multos enim vulneratos dejecit, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea.  
27 Vi? inferi domus ejus, penetrantes in interiora mortis.  

Notes:

For the Bible in Latin, I have used the Vulgate text at the Clementine Vulgate Project website.
The only English translations from the Vulgate that are readily available are John Wycliffe's 14th century English Bible, and the the Douay Rheims/Challoner versions.
I have used the Wycliffe Bible text from the Wesley Centre website, where you can view this Bible in a number of formats.
I have used the Douay Rheims Text at the Unbound Bible website.
You can view the Douay Rheims Bible in a more readable format at DRBO.ORG website.
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Passage headings are generally as printed in the Bible Society's "Good News Bible", 1976.
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