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; incline your ears to my understanding,
2 to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
so you may learn about discretion and your lips may protect knowledge.
3 for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
For the lips of an adulteress drip with honey and 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, cutting like a sharp sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps go all the way to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
6 way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
She gives no thought to the path of life. Her footsteps wander; she does not know where she is going.
7 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
Now, my sons, listen to me; do not turn away from listening to 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
Keep your path far away from her and 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
In that way you will not give away your honor to others or years of your life to a cruel person;
10 lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
strangers will not feast on your wealth; what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.
11 and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body waste away.
12 and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
You will say, “How I hated instruction and my heart despised correction!
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
I would not obey my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
I was almost completely ruined in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.”
15 to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
Drink water from your own cistern and drink running water from your own well.
16 to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
Should your springs overflow everywhere and your streams of water flow 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 and not for strangers with you.
18 to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
May your fountain be blessed and may you 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
for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be continually intoxicated by 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 by an adulteress; why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman?
21 for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
Yahweh sees everything a person does and watches all the paths he takes.
22 iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities; the cords of his sin will hold him tight.
23 he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
He will die because he lacks instruction; he is led astray by his great foolishness.
