< Proverbs 5 >

1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
son: child my to/for wisdom my to listen [emph?] to/for understanding my to stretch ear your
2 that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
to/for to keep: guard plot and knowledge lips your to watch
3 For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
for honey to drip/prophesy lips be a stranger and smooth from oil palate her
4 but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
and end her bitter like/as wormwood sharp like/as sword lip: edge
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
foot her to go down death hell: Sheol step her to grasp (Sheol h7585)
6 Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
way life lest to envy to shake track her not to know
7 And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and not to turn aside: depart from word lip my
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
to remove from upon her way: journey your and not to present: come to(wards) entrance house: home her
9 lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
lest to give: give to/for another splendor your and year your to/for cruel
10 lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
lest to satisfy be a stranger strength your and toil your in/on/with house: home foreign
11 and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
and to groan in/on/with end your in/on/with to end: destroy flesh your and flesh your
12 and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
and to say how? to hate discipline and argument to spurn heart my
13 and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
and not to hear: hear in/on/with voice rain/teacher my and to/for to learn: teach me not to stretch ear my
14 I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
like/as little to be in/on/with all bad: evil in/on/with midst assembly and congregation
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
to drink water from pit your and to flow from midst well your
16 Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
to flow spring your outside [to] in/on/with street/plaza stream water
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
to be to/for you to/for alone you and nothing to/for be a stranger with you
18 Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
to be fountain your to bless and to rejoice from woman: wife youth your
19 As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
doe lover and doe favor breast her to quench you in/on/with all time in/on/with love her to wander continually
20 And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
and to/for what? to wander son: child my in/on/with be a stranger and to embrace bosom: embrace foreign
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
for before eye LORD way: conduct man and all track his to envy
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
iniquity: crime his to capture him [obj] [the] wicked and in/on/with cord sin his to grasp
23 He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
he/she/it to die in/on/with nothing discipline and in/on/with abundance folly his to wander

< Proverbs 5 >