Proverbs 5
1 son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
2 to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
6 way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
7 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
Now therefore, son, listen to me. Do not depart 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 your way far from her. Do not come near the door of her house,
9 lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the merciless;
10 lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
11 and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
and say, "How I have 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
neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me.
14 like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly."
15 to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
16 to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
17 to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
18 to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your 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
A loving doe and a graceful deer—let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always 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
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD. He examines all his paths.
22 iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23 he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
