Proverbs 5
1 My son, listen carefully to some [more] wise things that I will tell you. Listen well to what I am going to teach you.
son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
2 If you do that, you will be able to choose wisely [what to do], and you will know [the right things] to say [MTY].
to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
3 What an immoral woman says [to you may be] as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil [feels on your skin],
for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
4 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.
and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
5 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)
foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol h7585)
6 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].
way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
7 So now, my sons, listen to me. (Never turn aside from/always remember) [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
8 Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!
to remove from upon her way: journey your and not to present: come to(wards) entrance house: home her
9 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!
lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
10 Foreigners will take your money, and [all] the good things that you have worked for will (end up in their hands/become their possessions).
lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
11 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.
and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
12 Then you will say, “I hated it [when people tried to] correct me. I despised [people when they] reproved/rebuked me.
and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
13 I did not heed what my teachers said! I paid no attention to those who [tried to] teach me [something about my behavior].
and not to hear: hear in/on/with voice rain/teacher my and to/for to learn: teach me not to stretch ear my
14 [Now] I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”
like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
15 Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy [having sex] [EUP] only with your own wife.
to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
16 Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, [you should not have sex with other women]. [MET, EUP]
to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
17 Enjoy [having sex] only with your wife; do not [have sex with] other women.
to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
18 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.
to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
19 She is as pretty and graceful [as] a young female deer. Allow her breasts to always satisfy you. Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
20 My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
21 [I say that] because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows [where we are going on] the roads that we walk on.
for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
22 Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are [like] ropes that bind them.
iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
23 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.
he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander
