Proverbs 5 — T4T

A warning about adultery

5Verse 1My son, listen carefully to some more wise things that I will tell you.Listen well to what I am going to teach you.^{Verse 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].^{Verse 3}What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,^{Verse 4}but the result of being with her will be bitter like galland injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 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.^{Verse 7}So now, my sons, listen to me.
◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
^{Verse 8}Run away from immoral women!Do not go near the doors of their houses!^{Verse 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!
^{Verse 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►.^{Verse 11}And when you are about to die,
you will groan with severe painbecause diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.^{Verse 12}Then you will say, “I hated it when people tried to correct me.I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.^{Verse 13}I did not heed what my teachers said!I paid no attention to those who tried to teach me something about my behavior.^{Verse 14}Now I am almost ruined,and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”^{Verse 15}Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET],enjoy having sex [EUP] only with your own wife.^{Verse 16}Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street,you should not have sex with other women. [MET, EUP]^{Verse 17}Enjoy having sex only with your wife;do not have sex with other women.^{Verse 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.
^{Verse 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.^{Verse 20}My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman!Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!^{Verse 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.^{Verse 22}Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast;their sins are like ropes that bind them.^{Verse 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.