సామెతలు 5
[My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply your ear to my words;
that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:
but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
5 ౫ దాని ప్రవర్తన మరణంలో పడిపోవడానికి దారితీస్తుంది. దాని మార్గం సూటిగా పాతాళానికి చేరుస్తుంది. (Sheol h7585)
For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established. (Sheol h7585)
6 ౬ జీవమార్గం గురించి వ్యభిచారిణి ఎంతమాత్రం ఆలోచించదు. ఆమె ఎటు వెళ్తుందో ఆమెకే తెలియక అటూ ఇటూ సంచరిస్తుంది.
For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
Now then, [my] son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
9 ౯ నువ్వు గనుక వ్యభిచారిణి దగ్గరికి వెళ్లిన పక్షంలో నీ ప్రతిష్ట నవ్వుల పాలౌతుంది. నీ జీవిత కాలమంతా దుష్టుల చేతిల్లోకి వెళ్తుంది.
lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless:
lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers;
And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,
12 ౧౨ అప్పుడు నువ్వు, అయ్యో, ఉపదేశాన్ని నేనెందుకు లక్ష్యపెట్టలేదు? నా మనస్సాక్షి గద్దింపును ఎందుకు తిరస్కరించాను?
and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.
Let not waters out of your fountain be spilt by you, but let your waters go into your streets.
Let them be only your own, and let no stranger partake with you.
Let your fountain of water be [truly] your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 ౧౯ ఆమె నీకు రమణీయమైన లేడి వంటిది. అందమైన దుప్పిలాంటిది. ఆమె రొమ్ములు నీకు ఎల్లప్పుడూ తృప్తి కలిగించనియ్యి. ఆమె ప్రేమకు బద్ధుడివై చిరకాలం జీవించు.
Let [your] loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.
Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.
