Proverbs 5
1 O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
My son, listen carefully to some [more] wise things that I will tell you. Listen well to what I am going to teach you.
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
If you do that, you will be able to choose wisely [what to do], and you will know [the right things] to say [MTY].
3 For honey they drip [the] lips of a strange [woman] and [is] smooth more than oil mouth her.
What an immoral woman says [to you may be] as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil [feels on your skin],
4 And end her [is] bitter like wormwood sharp like a sword of mouths.
but the result [of being with her] will be bitter like gall and [injure you as badly], like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave. (Sheol h7585)
6 [the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a [long] life. She walks [down] a crooked path, and she does not realize [that she is on the wrong road].
7 And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
So now, my sons, listen to me. (Never turn aside from/always remember) [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
8 Make far away from with her way your and may not you draw near to [the] entrance of house her.
Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!
9 Lest you should give to others vigor your and years your to a cruel [person].
If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your (self-respect/good reputation) and [that woman’s husband] will not act mercifully toward you; he will [kill you and] take everything that you have acquired during your life!
10 Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
Foreigners will take your money, and [all] the good things that you have worked for will (end up in their hands/become their possessions).
11 And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
And when you are about to die, you will groan [with severe pain] because diseases [that you have gotten from being immoral] will be destroying your body.
12 And you will say how! I hated discipline and rebuke it spurned heart my.
Then you will say, “I hated it [when people tried to] correct me. I despised [people when they] reproved/rebuked me.
13 And not I listened to [the] voice of instructor my and to teachers my not I inclined ear my.
I did not heed what my teachers said! I paid no attention to those who [tried to] teach me [something about my behavior].
14 Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
[Now] I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”
15 Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy [having sex] [EUP] only with your own wife.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, [you should not have sex with other women]. [MET, EUP]
17 Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
Enjoy [having sex] only with your wife; do not [have sex with] other women.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you. (Be happy/[Enjoy sex]) with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
19 A doe of loves and a goat of grace breasts her may they satisfy you at every time by love her may you be intoxicated continually.
She is as pretty and graceful [as] a young female deer. Allow her breasts to always satisfy you. Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
20 And why? will you go astray O son my with a strange [woman] may you embrace? [the] bosom of a foreign [woman].
My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
21 For before - [the] eyes of Yahweh [the] ways of a person and all tracks his [he is] making level.
[I say that] because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows [where we are going on] the roads that we walk on.
22 Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are [like] ropes that bind them.
23 He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
Evil men [will] die because they are unable to say “No” to their desires; they [will] (go astray/be lost) because of the foolish things that they do.
