Παροιμίαι 5
1 υἱέ ἐμῇ σοφίᾳ πρόσεχε ἐμοῖς δὲ λόγοις παράβαλλε σὸν οὖς
My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear:
2 ἵνα φυλάξῃς ἔννοιαν ἀγαθήν αἴσθησιν δὲ ἐμῶν χειλέων ἐντέλλομαί σοι
That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3 μὴ πρόσεχε φαύλῃ γυναικί μέλι γὰρ ἀποστάζει ἀπὸ χειλέων γυναικὸς πόρνης ἣ πρὸς καιρὸν λιπαίνει σὸν φάρυγγα
For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;
4 ὕστερον μέντοι πικρότερον χολῆς εὑρήσεις καὶ ἠκονημένον μᾶλλον μαχαίρας διστόμου
But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 τῆς γὰρ ἀφροσύνης οἱ πόδες κατάγουσιν τοὺς χρωμένους αὐτῇ μετὰ θανάτου εἰς τὸν ᾅδην τὰ δὲ ἴχνη αὐτῆς οὐκ ἐρείδεται (Sheol h7585)
Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world: (Sheol h7585)
6 ὁδοὺς γὰρ ζωῆς οὐκ ἐπέρχεται σφαλεραὶ δὲ αἱ τροχιαὶ αὐτῆς καὶ οὐκ εὔγνωστοι
So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.
7 νῦν οὖν υἱέ ἄκουέ μου καὶ μὴ ἀκύρους ποιήσῃς ἐμοὺς λόγους
And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.
8 μακρὰν ποίησον ἀπ’ αὐτῆς σὴν ὁδόν μὴ ἐγγίσῃς πρὸς θύραις οἴκων αὐτῆς
Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house;
9 ἵνα μὴ πρόῃ ἄλλοις ζωήν σου καὶ σὸν βίον ἀνελεήμοσιν
That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel;
10 ἵνα μὴ πλησθῶσιν ἀλλότριοι σῆς ἰσχύος οἱ δὲ σοὶ πόνοι εἰς οἴκους ἀλλοτρίων εἰσέλθωσιν
That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien:
11 καὶ μεταμεληθήσῃ ἐπ’ ἐσχάτων ἡνίκα ἂν κατατριβῶσιν σάρκες σώματός σου
While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,
12 καὶ ἐρεῖς πῶς ἐμίσησα παιδείαν καὶ ἐλέγχους ἐξέκλινεν ἡ καρδία μου
And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;
13 οὐκ ἤκουον φωνὴν παιδεύοντός με καὶ διδάσκοντός με οὐδὲ παρέβαλλον τὸ οὖς μου
While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;
14 παρ’ ὀλίγον ἐγενόμην ἐν παντὶ κακῷ ἐν μέσῳ ἐκκλησίας καὶ συναγωγῆς
But little more was wanting, and I had been in all [kinds of] unhappiness in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 πῖνε ὕδατα ἀπὸ σῶν ἀγγείων καὶ ἀπὸ σῶν φρεάτων πηγῆς
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.
16 μὴ ὑπερεκχείσθω σοι τὰ ὕδατα ἐκ τῆς σῆς πηγῆς εἰς δὲ σὰς πλατείας διαπορευέσθω τὰ σὰ ὕδατα
So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water;
17 ἔστω σοι μόνῳ ὑπάρχοντα καὶ μηδεὶς ἀλλότριος μετασχέτω σοι
They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee.
18 ἡ πηγή σου τοῦ ὕδατος ἔστω σοι ἰδία καὶ συνευφραίνου μετὰ γυναικὸς τῆς ἐκ νεότητός σου
Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth, —
19 ἔλαφος φιλίας καὶ πῶλος σῶν χαρίτων ὁμιλείτω σοι ἡ δὲ ἰδία ἡγείσθω σου καὶ συνέστω σοι ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ ἐν γὰρ τῇ ταύτης φιλίᾳ συμπεριφερόμενος πολλοστὸς ἔσῃ
The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually.
20 μὴ πολὺς ἴσθι πρὸς ἀλλοτρίαν μηδὲ συνέχου ἀγκάλαις τῆς μὴ ἰδίας
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
21 ἐνώπιον γάρ εἰσιν τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ὀφθαλμῶν ὁδοὶ ἀνδρός εἰς δὲ πάσας τὰς τροχιὰς αὐτοῦ σκοπεύει
For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.
22 παρανομίαι ἄνδρα ἀγρεύουσιν σειραῖς δὲ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτιῶν ἕκαστος σφίγγεται
His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.
23 οὗτος τελευτᾷ μετὰ ἀπαιδεύτων ἐκ δὲ πλήθους τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βιότητος ἐξερρίφη καὶ ἀπώλετο δῑ ἀφροσύνην
He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.
