Proverbs 5
1 My son! Give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
E taku tama, tahuri ki oki whakaaro nui, kia anga tou taringa ki toku matauranga:
2 To observe thoughtfulness, And your lips 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 honey, 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 And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
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 The path of life—lest you ponder, Her paths have moved—you do not know.
Heoi kahore i kitea e ia te ara totika ki te ora: he kotiti ke ona ara, a kahore ia i te matau.
7 And now, you sons, listen to me, And do not turn from sayings of my mouth.
Na reira, e aku tamariki, whakarongo mai ki ahau, kei mahue hoki nga kupu a toku mangai.
8 Keep your way far from off her, And do not come near to the opening 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 splendor to others, And your years to the fierce,
Kei hoatu tou honore ki nga tangata ke, ou tau ki te hunga nanakia:
10 Lest strangers be filled [with] your power, And your labors 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 have howled in your latter end, In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
A ka tangi koe i tou whakamutunga, ina poto ou kikokiko me tou tinana.
12 And have said, “How I have hated instruction, And my heart has despised reproof,
A ka mea, Katae toku kino ki te ako; katae te mauiui o toku ngakau ki te tohutohu!
13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
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 As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
Wahi iti kei nga kino katoa ahau i waenganui o te whakaminenga, o te huihui.
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, Even flowing ones 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 scattered abroad, In broad places streams of waters.
Kia tohatoha noa atu koia au puna wai, nga awa wai i nga huarahi?
17 Let them be to you for yourself, And not to strangers with you.
Waiho ena mau anake, kauaka ma koutou tahi ko nga tangata ke.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,
Kia manaakitia tau puna wai: kia koa ano koe ki te wahine o tou taitamarikitanga.
19 A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, Magnify yourself in her love continually.
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 do you magnify yourself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
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 each are before the eyes of YHWH, And He is pondering 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 His own iniquities capture the wicked, And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Ko ona kino ano hei hopu i te tangata kino, hei taura ona hara e mau ai ia.
23 He dies without instruction, And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!
Ka mate ia, he mea kihai i whakaakona, ka pohehe i te nui o tona wairangi.
