Proverbs 5
1 My son, listen carefully to some [more] wise things that I will tell you. Listen well to what I am going to teach you.
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 If you do that, you will be able to choose wisely [what to do], and you will know [the right things] to say [MTY].
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 What an immoral woman says [to you may be] as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil [feels on your skin],
For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
4 but the result [of being with her] will be bitter like gall and [injure you as badly], like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
5 If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave. (Sheol h7585)
Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. (Sheol h7585)
6 She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a [long] life. She walks [down] a crooked path, and she does not realize [that she is on the wrong road].
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 So now, my sons, listen to me. (Never turn aside from/always remember) [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8 Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your (self-respect/good reputation) and [that woman’s husband] will not act mercifully toward you; he will [kill you and] take everything that you have acquired during your life!
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 Foreigners will take your money, and [all] the good things that you have worked for will (end up in their hands/become their possessions).
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And when you are about to die, you will groan [with severe pain] because diseases [that you have gotten from being immoral] will be destroying your body.
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 Then you will say, “I hated it [when people tried to] correct me. I despised [people when they] reproved/rebuked me.
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 I did not heed what my teachers said! I paid no attention to those who [tried to] teach me [something about my behavior].
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 [Now] I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy [having sex] [EUP] only with your own wife.
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, [you should not have sex with other women]. [MET, EUP]
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 Enjoy [having sex] only with your wife; do not [have sex with] other women.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you. (Be happy/[Enjoy sex]) with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19 She is as pretty and graceful [as] a young female deer. Allow her breasts to always satisfy you. Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
20 My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 [I say that] because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows [where we are going on] the roads that we walk on.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are [like] ropes that bind them.
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23 Evil men [will] die because they are unable to say “No” to their desires; they [will] (go astray/be lost) because of the foolish things that they do.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
