Provérbios 5— comparação

1Meu filho, preste atenção à minha sabedoria.

2para que você mantenha a discrição,

3Pois os lábios de uma adúltera destilam mel.

4mas no final ela é amarga como o absinto,

5Os seus pés descem para a morte.

6Ela não dá a mínima atenção ao caminho da vida.

7Agora, pois, meus filhos, ouçam-me.

8Afaste o seu caminho para longe dela.

9para que você não entregue a sua honra a outros,

10para que estranhos não se fartem da sua riqueza,

11Você gemerá no seu fim,

12e dirá: “Como odiei a instrução,

13Não obedeci à voz dos meus mestres,

14Cheguei à beira da ruína total,

15Beba a água da sua própria cisterna,

16Deveriam as suas fontes transbordar pelas ruas,

17Que elas sejam só para você,

18Seja bendita a sua fonte.

19Como uma corça amorosa e uma gazela graciosa—

20Pois por que, meu filho, você seria cativado por uma adúltera?

21Pois os caminhos do homem estão diante dos olhos do SENHOR.

22As más obras do ímpio o prendem.

23Ele morrerá por falta de instrução.

1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

8Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

13I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

14I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

15Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

16Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

17Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

20For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.