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Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
וְעַתָּ֣ה
and=now
And now here indicates a transition from the description of the adulterous woman in [5:3–6](../05/03.md) to the call to pay attention, which follows. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate a transition. Alternate translation: “Next”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
וְעַתָּ֣ה בָ֭נִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִ֑י וְאַל־תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי
and=now children listen to=me and,not depart from,words_of mouth_of,my
These two clauses mean basically the same thing. The second clause emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could connect the clauses with a word other than and that shows that the second clause is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternate translation: “And now, sons, listen to me; yes, do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations
בָ֭נִים
children
See how you translated the same use of sons in [4:1](../04/01.md).
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְאַל־תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי
and,not depart from,words_of mouth_of,my
Here Solomon speaks of someone not listening to someone else as if the person physically turned away from what he was saying. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “do not stop listening to the sayings of my mouth”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
וְאַל־תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי
and,not depart from,words_of mouth_of,my
Solomon is using a figure of speech here that expresses a strongly positive meaning by using a negative word, not, together with an expression that is the opposite of the intended meaning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning positively. Alternate translation: “and listen to the sayings of my mouth”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי
from,words_of mouth_of,my
See how you translated the sayings of my mouth in [4:5](../04/05.md).
5:1-23 These instructions on embracing one’s wife and avoiding immoral women were originally addressed to young men just beginning their professional careers (see also 2:16-22; 7:1-27). This topic is also popular in ancient Egyptian wisdom writing.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.