நீதிமொழிகள் 7
My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions [as you would] [MET] [guard] a treasure.
2 ௨ என்னுடைய கட்டளைகளையும் என்னுடைய போதகத்தையும் உன்னுடைய கண்மணியைப்போல் காத்துக்கொள், அப்பொழுது பிழைப்பாய்.
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.
5 ௫ ஞானத்தை நோக்கி, நீ என்னுடைய சகோதரி என்றும், புத்தியைப்பார்த்து, நீ என்னுடைய இனத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவள் என்றும் சொல்லு.
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.
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.
15 ௧௫ ஆதலால், நான் உன்னைச் சந்திக்கப் புறப்பட்டு, உன் முகத்தை ஆவலோடு தேடினேன்; இப்பொழுது உன்னைக் கண்டுபிடித்தேன்.
And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and [now] I have found you!
16 ௧௬ என்னுடைய மெத்தையை இரத்தினக் கம்பளங்களாலும், எகிப்து தேசத்தின் விசித்திரமான மெல்லிய துணிகளாலும் அலங்கரித்தேன்.
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.
20 ௨0 பணப்பையைத் தன்னுடைய கையிலே கொண்டுபோனான், குறிக்கப்பட்ட நாளிலே வீட்டுக்கு வருவான் என்று சொல்லி,
He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
21 ௨௧ தன்னுடைய மிகுதியான இனிய சொற்களால் அவனை வசப்படுத்தி, தன்னுடைய உதடுகளின் இனிமையான பேச்சால் அவனை இணங்கச்செய்தாள்.
[So] she persuaded him by [her] enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
22 ௨௨ உடனே அவன் அவள் பின்னே சென்றான்; ஒரு மாடு அடிக்கப்படும்படி செல்வதுபோலவும், ஒரு மூடன் விலங்கிடப்பட்டு தண்டனைக்குப் போவதுபோலவும்,
[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 ௨௩ ஒரு குருவி தன்னுடைய உயிரை வாங்கும் கண்ணியை அறியாமல் அதில் விழுவதற்கு விரைந்து போகிறதுபோலவும், அவளுக்குப் பின்னே போனான்; அம்பு அவனுடைய இருதயத்தைப் பிளந்தது.
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.
