Provérbios 6
1 Filho meu, se ficaste por fiador do teu companheiro, se deste a tua mão ao estranho,
My son, if someone has borrowed money from a friend or a stranger, and if you have promised that you will pay the money back if that person is unable to pay back the money he borrowed,
2 Enredaste-te com as palavras da tua boca: prendeste-te com as palavras da tua boca.
you may be trapped by what you have agreed to do, [because if the one who borrowed the money is not able to pay it back, you will have to pay it]. What you have said that you will do will be like a snare to you.
3 Faze pois isto agora, filho meu, e livra-te, pois já caíste nas mãos do teu companheiro; vai, humilha-te, e aperta com o teu companheiro.
So, my son, I will tell you what you should do to escape from your difficulty, so that the moneylender does not get control over your [wealth: ] Humbly go to your friend and plead with him [to cancel the agreement]!
4 Não dês sono aos teus olhos, nem adormecimento às tuas pálpebras.
Do not wait until tomorrow; [go immediately]! Do not rest until you [go and talk with him].
5 Livra-te como o corço da mão do passarinheiro.
Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter [or] like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.
6 Vai-te à formiga, ó preguiçoso: olha para os seus caminhos, e sê sábio.
You lazy individual, learn something from [watching] the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.
7 A qual, não tendo superior, nem oficial, nem dominador,
They do not have a king or a governor or any [other] person who rules them [and forces them to work],
8 Prepara no verão o seu pão: na sega ajunta o seu mantimento.
[but] they work hard [all] during the summer, gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
9 Oh! preguiçoso, até quando ficarás deitado? quando te levantarás do teu sono?
[But], you lazy loafer, how long will you [continue to] sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping [and go to work]?
10 Um pouco de sono, um pouco tosquenejando; um pouco encruzando as mãos, para estar deitado.
You sleep a for a little time; [you say, “I will take] just a short nap.” You lie down and fold/lay your hands [across your chest] and rest;
11 Assim te sobrevirá a tua pobreza como o caminhante, e a tua necessidade como um homem armado.
and suddenly you will become poor. It will be as though a bandit suddenly comes and takes all that you have.
12 O homem de Belial, o homem vicioso, anda em perversidade de boca.
[I will describe for you what] worthless and evil people [are like]. They constantly lie;
13 Acena com os olhos, fala com os pés, ensina com os dedos.
by winking their eyes and moving their feet and making signs with their fingers, they signal [to their friends what they are intending/planning to do].
14 Perversidade há no seu coração, todo o tempo maquina mal: anda semeando contendas.
They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.
15 Pelo que a sua destruição virá repentinamente: subitamente será quebrantado, sem que haja cura.
But disasters will hit them suddenly; they will be crushed/ruined and nothing will be able to heal them.
16 Estas seis coisas aborrece o Senhor, e sete a sua alma abomina:
There are six, [maybe] seven, kinds of people that Yahweh hates. [They are]:
17 Olhos altivos, língua mentirosa, e mãos que derramam sangue inocente:
People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie [MTY]; people [SYN] who kill others [SYN] who have done nothing wrong;
18 O coração que maquina pensamentos viciosos; pés que se apressam a correr para o mal;
people who plan to do evil deeds; people [SYN] who run quickly to do wrong things;
19 A testemunha falsa que respira mentiras: e o que semeia contendas entre irmãos.
people who easily tell lies in court; and people who cause strife between family members.
20 Filho meu, guarda o mandamento de teu pai, e não deixes a lei de tua mãe;
My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.
21 Ata-os perpetuamente ao teu coração, e pendura-os ao teu pescoço.
Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be [like a beautiful necklace] around your neck.
22 Quando caminhares, te guiará; quando te deitares, te guardará; quando acordares, ela falará contigo.
[If you follow our advice, it will be as though] what we have taught you [PRS] will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.
23 Porque o mandamento é uma lâmpada, e a lei uma luz: e as repreensões da correção são o caminho da vida
These commands and what we teach you [will be like] a lamp to light your path [MET]. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having [a good] life.
24 Para te guardarem da má mulher, e das lisonjas da língua estranha.
Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from [listening to] the enticing words of an adulterous woman.
25 Não cobices no teu coração a sua formosura, nem te prendas com os seus olhos.
[Even] if such a woman is beautiful and has lovely eyes, do not desire to go with her. Do not let her persuade you to go with her (with her eyes/by the way she looks at you).
26 Porque por causa de uma mulher prostituta se chega a pedir um bocado de pão; e a mulher dada a homens anda à caça da preciosa alma.
[Do not forget that] you can hire a prostitute for only a loaf of bread, but [if you sleep with] another man’s wife, (it may cost you/you may lose) your life.
27 Porventura tomará alguém fogo no seu seio, sem que os seus vestidos se queimem?
Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned [RHQ]?
28 Ou andará alguém sobre as brazas, sem que se queimem os seus pés?
Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your feet?
29 Assim será o que entrar à mulher do seu próximo: não ficará inocente todo aquele que a tocar.
[No]! And in the same way, anyone who (sleeps with/has sex with) another man’s wife will [suffer for doing that]. [He will certainly] [LIT] be punished severely.
30 Não injuriam ao ladrão, quando furta, para saciar a sua alma, tendo fome;
We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very hungry.
31 Mas, achado, pagará sete vezes tanto: dará toda a fazenda de sua casa.
But [if he steals something and then] is caught [by the police], he will have to pay back (seven times as much as/much more than) he stole. He may need to sell everything that is in his house [to get enough money to pay it back].
32 Porém o que adultera com uma mulher é falto de entendimento; destrói a sua alma, o que tal faz.
[But] a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, [because] he is destroying his own self/soul [by what he is doing].
33 Achará castigo e vilipêndio, e o seu opróbrio nunca se apagará.
[That woman’s husband] will wound him badly, and [other people] will despise him. His shame will never end.
34 Porque ciúmes são furores do marido, e de maneira nenhuma perdoará no dia da vingança.
Because that woman’s husband will (be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her), he will become furious, and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully [toward the man who slept with his wife].
35 Nenhum resgate aceitará, nem consentirá, ainda que aumentes os presentes.
And he will not accept any bribe/money, even if it is a big bribe, to (appease him/cause him to stop being angry).
