< Proverbs 5 >
1 son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
2 to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
3 for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat 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, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol )
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell. (Sheol )
6 way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
7 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
Now therefore, my son, hear 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 doors of her house.
9 lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to 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 strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
11 and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
12 and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to 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 have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
14 like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
15 to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
16 to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
17 to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
18 to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with 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
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted 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
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
21 for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
22 iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
23 he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.