OET interlinear PRO 6:26

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

כִּ֤י

that/for/because/then/when

For here indicates that what follows is a reason for the commands in the previous verse. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: “Do not do those things because”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

בְעַד־אִשָּׁ֥ה זוֹנָ֗ה

fee woman/wife prostitute's

Here Solomon is using the possessive form to refer to the price that a person pays to have sex with a prostitute woman. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly or use a euphemism for this idea. Alternate translation: “the price to sleep with a prostitute woman”

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

כִּכַּ֫ר לָ֥חֶם

loaf_of bread

In this culture, a loaf of bread was inexpensive daily food. A loaf of bread is a lump of flour dough that a person has shaped and baked. If your readers would not be familiar with bread you could use the name of an inexpensive food that is commonly eaten in your country or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “inexpensive food”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וְ⁠אֵ֥שֶׁת אִ֑ישׁ

and,wife_of (a)_man

Here Solomon implies that this wife of a man is an adulterous woman. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “but a married woman who commits adultery”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

נֶ֖פֶשׁ יְקָרָ֣ה תָצֽוּד

creature precious hunts

Here Solomon speaks of a adulterous woman causing the man she commits adultery with to die as if she hunts him the way a hunter hunts an animal. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “kills a precious life”