< Proverbs 5 >

1 My son! Give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
2 To observe thoughtfulness, And your lips keep knowledge.
to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,
for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
4 And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
5 Her feet are going down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol h7585)
6 The path of life—lest you ponder, Her paths have moved—you do not know.
way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
7 And now, you sons, listen to me, And do not turn from sayings 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 way far from off her, And do not come near to the opening 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 give your splendor to others, And your years to the fierce,
lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
10 Lest strangers be filled [with] your power, And your labors in the house of a stranger,
lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
11 And you have howled in your latter end, In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
12 And have said, “How I have hated instruction, And my heart has despised reproof,
and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
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 As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, Even flowing ones out of your own well.
to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
16 Let your fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places streams of waters.
to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
17 Let them be to you for yourself, And not to strangers with you.
to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,
to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
19 A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, Magnify yourself in her love continually.
doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
20 And why do you magnify yourself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
21 For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, And He is pondering all his paths.
for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
22 His own iniquities capture the wicked, And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
23 He dies without instruction, And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!
he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander

< Proverbs 5 >