< Proverbs 5 >
1 son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
2 to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
3 for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
4 and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol )
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol. (Sheol )
6 way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
7 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 to remove from upon her way: journey your and not to present: come to(wards) entrance house: home her
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
10 lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
11 and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
12 and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
13 and not to hear: hear in/on/with voice rain/teacher my and to/for to learn: teach me not to stretch ear my
and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
14 like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
17 to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
19 doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
20 and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
22 iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
23 he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.