ਕਹਾਉਤਾਂ 7
My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions [as you would] [MET] [guard] a treasure.
Obey my commands, and [as a result you will] live [a good life]. Consider the things that I teach you [to be very precious]; guard them, [just] like you protect your eyes.
Tie my commands around your fingers [in order that they will remind you to obey them]. Always keep them in mind [MET].
[Love] wisdom [like you love] your sister. Understand what is wise, [and let that be as dear to you as] members of your family.
If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not [sleep with] an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you [to sleep with her] by what she says.
One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.
8 ੮ ਉਹ ਉਸ ਔਰਤ ਦੇ ਘਰ ਦੀ ਨੁੱਕਰ ਦੇ ਨੇੜ੍ਹੇ ਦੀ ਗਲੀ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਦੀ ਲੰਘਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਸੀ, ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਉਹ ਦੇ ਘਰ ਦਾ ਰਾਹ ਫੜ੍ਹਿਆ,
He crossed the street near [the house of] an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house
at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU].
Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him. She was dressed (seductively/like a prostitute), wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.
She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she [SYN] never stayed at home.
She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.
[When she saw that young man], she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,
“I have [some meat that is left over from] a sacrifice that I made today [to maintain fellowship with Yahweh]; I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.
And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and [now] I have found you!
I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from [very fine] linen [that were imported] {[people brought]} from Egypt.
I have sprinkled [sweet-smelling] perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.
Come [with me]; let us enjoy having sex until [tomorrow] morning. Let’s enjoy making love.
My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
21 ੨੧ ਉਹ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੀਆਂ ਬਾਹਲੀਆਂ ਚਿਕਨੀਆਂ-ਚੋਪੜੀਆਂ ਗੱਲਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਫ਼ੁਸਲਾ ਲਿਆ, ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਬੁੱਲ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਲੱਲੋ-ਪੱਤੋ ਨਾਲ ਧੱਕੋ-ਧੱਕੀ ਉਹ ਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਗਈ।
[So] she persuaded him by [her] enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
[And] he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,
23 ੨੩ ਜਦ ਤੱਕ ਤੀਰ ਉਹ ਦੇ ਕਲੇਜੇ ਨੂੰ ਨਾ ਵਿੰਨੇ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਪੰਛੀ ਫਾਹੀ ਵੱਲ ਨੂੰ ਛੇਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਜਾਵੇ, ਅਤੇ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਣਦਾ ਭਈ ਇਹ ਉਹ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਜਾਨ ਲੈਣ ਲਈ ਹੈ।
where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver [and kills it]. [He was] like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that (it would cost him his life/he would die as a result).
My son, listen to what I say; pay [careful] attention to my words.
Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.
She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
