Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
E taku tama, tahuri ki oki whakaaro nui, kia anga tou taringa ki toku matauranga:
2 That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Kia u ai koe ki te ngarahu pai, kia mau ai te matauranga i ou ngutu.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth 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 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-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 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
Heoi kahore i kitea e ia te ara totika ki te ora: he kotiti ke ona ara, a kahore ia i te matau.
7 Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Na reira, e aku tamariki, whakarongo mai ki ahau, kei mahue hoki nga kupu a toku mangai.
8 Remove your way far from her, and come not 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 give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:
Kei hoatu tou honore ki nga tangata ke, ou tau ki te hunga nanakia:
10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
Kei makona nga tangata ke i tou kaha, kei riro ou mauiui ki te whare o te tangata ke;
11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
A ka tangi koe i tou whakamutunga, ina poto ou kikokiko me tou tinana.
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
A ka mea, Katae toku kino ki te ako; katae te mauiui o toku ngakau ki te tohutohu!
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
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 was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
Wahi iti kei nga kino katoa ahau i waenganui o te whakaminenga, o te huihui.
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
Inumia he wai i roto i tau ake rua, me nga wai rere ano i roto i tau ake poka.
16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Kia tohatoha noa atu koia au puna wai, nga awa wai i nga huarahi?
17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers’ with you.
Waiho ena mau anake, kauaka ma koutou tahi ko nga tangata ke.
18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Kia manaakitia tau puna wai: kia koa ano koe ki te wahine o tou taitamarikitanga.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.
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 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and 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 the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.
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 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Ko ona kino ano hei hopu i te tangata kino, hei taura ona hara e mau ai ia.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Ka mate ia, he mea kihai i whakaakona, ka pohehe i te nui o tona wairangi.
