Provérbios 5

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom.

Turn your ear to my understanding,

2 that you may maintain discretion,

that your lips may preserve knowledge.

3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.

Her mouth is smoother than oil,

4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,

and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death.

Her steps lead straight to Sheol.*5:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.

6 She gives no thought to the way of life.

Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.

Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove your way far from her.

Don’t come near the door of her house,

9 lest you give your honor to others,

and your years to the cruel one;

10 lest strangers feast on your wealth,

and your labors enrich another man’s house.

11 You will groan at your latter end,

when your flesh and your body are consumed,

12 and say, "How I have hated instruction,

and my heart despised reproof.

13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers,

nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin,

among the gathered assembly."

15 Drink water out of your own cistern,

running water out of your own well.

16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,

streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be for yourself alone,

not for strangers with you.

18 Let your spring be blessed.

Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe and a graceful deer—

let her breasts satisfy you at all times.

Be captivated always with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?

Why embrace the bosom of another?

21 For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes.

He examines all his paths.

22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.

The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

23 He will die for lack of instruction.

In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

He Whakatūpato kei Pūremu

1 E tāku tama, tahuri ki ōku whakaaro nui;

kia anga tōu taringa ki tōku mātauranga,

2 kia ū ai koe ki te ngārahu pai,

mau ai te mātauranga i ōu ngutu.

3 Ko ngā ngutu hoki o te wahine kē, kei te māturuturunga iho o te honikoma,

ngāwari iho tōna māngai i te hinu;

4 he kawa rawa hoki tōna mutunga i te taru kawa,

he koi, ānō he hoari matarua.

5 Ko ōna waewae e heke ana ki te mate;

mau pū te rēinga i ōna takahanga.

6 Heoi, kāhore i kitea e ia te ara tōtika ki te ora;

he kotiti kē ōna ara, ā, kāhore ia i tē mātau.

7 Nā reira, e āku tamariki, whakarongo mai ki ahau,

kei mahue hoki ngā kupu a tōku māngai.

8 Kia matara tōu ara i a ia,

kaua hoki e tata ki te tatau o tōna whare;

9 kei hoatu tōu hōnore ki ngā tāngata kē,

ōu tau ki te hunga nanakia.

10 Kei mākona ngā tāngata kē i tōu kaha,

kei riro ōu māuiui ki te whare o te tangata kē;

11 ā, ka tangi koe i tōu whakamutunga,

ina poto ōu kikokiko me tōu tinana,

12 ā, ka mea, "Kātae tōku kino ki te ako;

kātae te māuiui o tōku ngākau ki te tohutohu!

13 Kīhai hoki ahau i whakarongo ki te reo o ōku kaiwhakaako,

kīhai tōku taringa i anga ki te hunga e tohutohu ana i ahau.

14 Wāhi iti kei ngā kino katoa ahau

i waenganui o te whakaminenga, o te huihui."

15 Inumia he wai i roto i tāu ake rua,

me ngā wai rere anō i roto i tāu ake poka.

16 Kia tohatoha noa atu koia āu puna wai,

ngā awa wai i ngā huarahi?

17 Waiho ēnā māu anake,

kauaka mā koutou tahi ko ngā tāngata kē.

18 Kia manaakitia tāu puna wai;

kia koa anō koe ki te wahine o tōu taitamarikitanga.

19 Kia rite ia ki taua mea āhuareka, ki te hāta,

ki te mea ātaahua ki te anaterope.

Kia mākona koe i ōna ū i ngā wā katoa,

kia matenuitia tonutia e koe tōna aroha.

20 He aha oti koe, e tāku tama, ka matenui ai ki te wahine kē,

i awhi ai i te uma o te wahine kē?

21 Kei mua hoki i ngā kanohi o Ihowā ngā ara o te tangata,

ā, e meinga ana e ia kia papatairite ōna ara katoa.

22 Ko ōna kino anō hei hopu i te tangata kino,

hei taura ōna hara e mau ai ia.

23 Ka mate ia, he mea kīhai i whakaakona,

ka pōhēhē i te nui o tōna wairangi.