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.
わが子よ、わたしの知恵に心をとめ、わたしの悟りに耳をかたむけよ。
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].
これは、あなたが慎みを守り、あなたのくちびるに知識を保つためである。
3 What an immoral woman says [to you may be] as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil [feels on your skin],
遊女のくちびるは蜜をしたたらせ、その言葉は油よりもなめらかである。
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.
しかしついには、彼女はにがよもぎのように苦く、もろ刃のつるぎのように鋭くなる。
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)
その足は死に下り、その歩みは陰府の道におもむく。 (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].
彼女はいのちの道に心をとめず、その道は人を迷わすが、彼女はそれを知らない。
7 So now, my sons, listen to me. (Never turn aside from/always remember) [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
子供らよ、今わたしの言うことを聞け、わたしの口の言葉から、離れ去ってはならない。
8 Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!
あなたの道を彼女から遠く離し、その家の門に近づいてはならない。
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!
おそらくはあなたの誉を他人にわたし、あなたの年を無慈悲な者にわたすに至る。
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).
おそらくは他人があなたの資産によって満たされ、あなたの労苦は他人の家に行く。
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.
そしてあなたの終りが来て、あなたの身と、からだが滅びるとき、泣き悲しんで、
12 Then you will say, “I hated it [when people tried to] correct me. I despised [people when they] reproved/rebuked me.
言うであろう、「わたしは教訓をいとい、心に戒めを軽んじ、
13 I did not heed what my teachers said! I paid no attention to those who [tried to] teach me [something about my behavior].
教師の声に聞き従わず、わたしを教える者に耳を傾けず、
14 [Now] I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”
集まりの中、会衆のうちにあって、わたしは、破滅に陥りかけた」と。
15 Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy [having sex] [EUP] only with your own wife.
あなたは自分の水ためから水を飲み、自分の井戸から、わき出す水を飲むがよい。
16 Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, [you should not have sex with other women]. [MET, EUP]
あなたの泉を、外にまきちらし、水の流れを、ちまたに流してよかろうか。
17 Enjoy [having sex] only with your wife; do not [have sex with] other women.
それを自分だけのものとし、他人を共にあずからせてはならない。
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.
あなたの泉に祝福を受けさせ、あなたの若い時の妻を楽しめ。
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.
彼女は愛らしい雌じか、美しいしかのようだ。いつも、その乳ぶさをもって満足し、その愛をもって常に喜べ。
20 My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
わが子よ、どうして遊女に迷い、みだらな女の胸をいだくのか。
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.
人の道は主の目の前にあり、主はすべて、その行いを見守られる。
22 Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are [like] ropes that bind them.
悪しき者は自分のとがに捕えられ、自分の罪のなわにつながれる。
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.
彼は、教訓がないために死に、その愚かさの大きいことによって滅びる。
