A Warning Against Committing Adultery
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Listen carefully to my wise sayings.
2Then you will continue to have good sense.
Your lips will keep on speaking words of knowledge.
3A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey.
What she says is smoother than olive oil.
4But in the end she is like bitter poison.
She cuts like a sword that has two edges.
5Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead straight to the grave.
6She doesn’t give any thought to her way of life.
Her paths have no direction, but she doesn’t realize it.
7My sons, listen to me.
Don’t turn away from what I say.
8Stay on a path far away from that evil woman.
Don’t even go near the door of her house.
9If you do, you will lose your honor to other people.
You will give your self-respect to someone who is mean.
10Strangers will use up all your wealth.
Your hard work will make someone else rich.
11At the end of your life you will groan.
Your skin and your body will be worn out.
12You will say, “How I hated to take advice!
How my heart refused to be corrected!
13I would not obey my teachers.
I wouldn’t listen to those who taught me.
14I was soon in deep trouble.
It happened right in front of the whole assembly of God’s people.”
15Drink water from your own well.
Drink running water from your own spring.
16Should your springs pour out into the streets?
Should your streams of water pour out in public places?
17No! Let them belong to you alone.
Never share them with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed.
May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.
19She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer.
May her breasts always satisfy you.
May you always be captured by her love.
20My son, why be captured by another man’s wife?
Why hug a woman who has gone astray?
21The Lord watches your ways.
He studies all your paths.
22Sinners are trapped by their own evil acts.
They are held tight by the ropes of their sins.
23They will die because they refused to be corrected.
Their sins will capture them because they were very foolish.
Okulabula ku Bwenzi
15:1 Nge 4:20; 22:17Mutabani, ossangayo omwoyo eri ebiragiro byange,
era owulirizanga bulungi ebigambo byange eby’amagezi,
2olyoke oyige okusalawo okw’amagezi,
era akamwa ko kavengamu eby’obutegevu.
35:3 Zab 55:21; Nge 2:16; 7:5Kubanga emimwa gy’omukazi omwenzi gitonnya omubisi gw’enjuki,
n’ebigambo bye biweweevu okusinga omuzigo;
45:4 Mub 7:26naye enkomerero ya byonna, akaawa ng’omususa
era asala ng’ekitala eky’obwogi obubiri.
55:5 Nge 7:26-27Ebigere bye bituuka mu kufa,
ebisinde bye biraga emagombe.
65:6 Nge 30:20Tafaayo ku kkubo lya bulamu,
amakubo ge gaakyamakyama dda, naye nga takimanyi.
75:7 Nge 7:24Kaakano, batabani bange mumpulirize,
temuvanga ku bigambo bya kamwa kange.
85:8 Nge 7:1-27Mwewalenga omukazi oyo
era temusembereranga luggi lwa nnyumba ye;
9si kulwa nga mufiirwa ekitiibwa kyammwe,
n’okumalira ebiseera byammwe ku oyo alina ettima,
10ate si kulwa nga b’otolina ky’obamanyiiko bakwavuwaza,
n’amaanyi go n’ogamalira ku maka g’omulala.
11Ku nkomerero y’obulamu bwo olisinda,
ennyama yo n’omubiri gwo nga biweddewo.
125:12 Nge 1:29; 12:1Oligamba nti, “Nga nakyawa okulabulwa,
n’omutima gwange ne gukyawa okunenyezebwa,
13era ne sigondera ddoboozi ly’abasomesa bange,
wadde okussaayo omwoyo eri abo abampanga amagezi.
14Ntuuse ku njegoyego z’okuzikirira
nga ndi wakati mu kuŋŋaaniro ly’ekibiina.”
Obuvunaanyizibwa n’Essanyu mu Bufumbo
15Onoonywanga amazzi ag’omu kidiba kyo,
n’amazzi agava mu luzzi lwo goonoonywanga.
16Ensulo zo zisaanye okukulukutira mu nguudo,
n’enzizi zo mu bifo ebigazi eby’omu kibuga?
17Leka bibeere bibyo wekka,
bireme kugabanibwako b’otomanyiiko n’akamu.
185:18 a Lu 4:12-15 b Mub 9:9; Mal 2:14Kale leka ensulo yo ebeere n’omukisa,
era osanyuke ne mukazi wo ow’omu buvubuka bwo.
195:19 Lu 2:9; 4:5Ng’ennangaazi eyeeyagaza n’empeewo esanyusa,
leka okusuuta kwe kukumalenga ennaku zonna era naye akwetoloozenga okwagala kwe.
20Lwaki mwana wange osendebwasendebwa omukazi omwenzi,
n’ogwa mu kifuba ky’omukazi w’omusajja omulala?
215:21 a Zab 119:168; Kos 7:2 b Yob 14:16; 31:4; 34:21; Nge 15:3; Yer 16:17; 32:19; Beb 4:13Kubanga Mukama alaba amakubo g’omuntu gonna,
era n’akebera n’amakubo ge gonna.
225:22 a Zab 9:16 b Kbl 32:23; Zab 7:15-16; Nge 1:31-32Ebikolwa by’omukozi w’ebibi bimufuukira omutego,
era emiguwa gy’ebikolwa bye ebibi girimusibira ddala.
235:23 Yob 4:21; 36:12Alifa, kubanga yagaana okwekuuma,
era alizikirira olw’obusirusiru bwe obungi.
