Proverbschapter 5
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Proverbs 5— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Honeyed Lips, and an End Bitter as Wormwood1
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
Rashi on Proverbs 5:10
lest strangers be sated with your strength The prophets of Baal, who collect money with their lies and their hastiness.
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11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Rashi on Proverbs 5:11
And you shall moan when your end comes The end will be that you will moan when your end comes.
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12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
Rashi on Proverbs 5:14
I was almost in all evil There is but a step between me and Gehinnom. (Because of a little thing, I was now “in all evil,” for I did not obey my instructors; had I obeyed them, this would not have happened to me. From Rabbi Joseph Kara.)
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Drink Waters Out of Thine Own Cistern15
15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Rashi on Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern From the cistern that the Holy One, blessed be He, gave you for your share, viz. the Law of Moses.
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16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Rashi on Proverbs 5:16
May your springs spread out In the end you will acquire disciples, and you will promulgate decisions in public, and you will gain a reputation.
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17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.