Proverbs 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
E taku tama, tahuri ki oki whakaaro nui, kia anga tou taringa ki toku matauranga:
2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Kia u ai koe ki te ngarahu pai, kia mau ai te matauranga i ou ngutu.
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
Ko nga ngutu hoki o te wahine ke, kei te maturuturunga iho o te honikoma, ngawari iho tona mangai i te hinu.
4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
He kawa rawa hoki tona mutunga i te taru kawa; he koi, ano he hoari matarua.
Ko ona waewae e heke ana ki te mate, mau pu te reinga i ona takahanga; (Sheol h7585)
6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
Heoi kahore i kitea e ia te ara totika ki te ora: he kotiti ke ona ara, a kahore ia i te matau.
7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
Na reira, e aku tamariki, whakarongo mai ki ahau, kei mahue hoki nga kupu a toku mangai.
8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
Kia matara tou ara i a ia, kaua hoki e tata ki te tatau o tona whare;
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
Kei hoatu tou honore ki nga tangata ke, ou tau ki te hunga nanakia:
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
Kei makona nga tangata ke i tou kaha, kei riro ou mauiui ki te whare o te tangata ke;
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
A ka tangi koe i tou whakamutunga, ina poto ou kikokiko me tou tinana.
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
A ka mea, Katae toku kino ki te ako; katae te mauiui o toku ngakau ki te tohutohu!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Kihai hoki ahau i whakarongo ki te reo o oku kaiwhakaako, kihai toku taringa i anga ki te hunga e tohutohu ana i ahau.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
Wahi iti kei nga kino katoa ahau i waenganui o te whakaminenga, o te huihui.
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Inumia he wai i roto i tau ake rua, me nga wai rere ano i roto i tau ake poka.
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Kia tohatoha noa atu koia au puna wai, nga awa wai i nga huarahi?
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Waiho ena mau anake, kauaka ma koutou tahi ko nga tangata ke.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Kia manaakitia tau puna wai: kia koa ano koe ki te wahine o tou taitamarikitanga.
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Kia rite ia ki taua mea ahuareka, ki te hata, ki te mea ataahua ki te anaterope; kia makona koe i ona u i nga wa katoa, kia matenuitia tonutia e koe tona aroha.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
He aha oti koe, e taku tama, ka matenui ai ki te wahine ke, i awhi ai i te uma o te wahine ke?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Kei mua hoki i nga kanohi o Ihowa nga ara o te tangata, a e meinga ana e ia kia papatairite ona ara katoa.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Ko ona kino ano hei hopu i te tangata kino, hei taura ona hara e mau ai ia.
23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
Ka mate ia, he mea kihai i whakaakona, ka pohehe i te nui o tona wairangi.
