Proverbs 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol h7585)
6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
to remove from upon her way: journey your and not to present: come to(wards) entrance house: home her
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
and not to hear: hear in/on/with voice rain/teacher my and to/for to learn: teach me not to stretch ear my
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
