< Proverbs 5 >

1 My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:
son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, —and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
3 For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
4 But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!
and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
5 Her feet, are going down to death, —on hades, will her steps take firm hold. (Sheol h7585)
foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol h7585)
6 Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither].
way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
7 Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the 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 far from her thy way, and do not go near 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 thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:
lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
10 Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.
lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
11 So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;
and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
12 And thou shalt say—How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;
and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
13 Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:
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 Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.
like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
15 Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.
to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
16 Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:
to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
17 Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
18 Let thy well-spring be blessed, —and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: —
to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
19 A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.
doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
20 Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
21 For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man, —and, all his tracks, doth he consider:
for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
22 His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.
iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
23 He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.
he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander

< Proverbs 5 >