OET interlinear PRO 6:34

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

כִּֽי

that/for/because/then/when

For here indicates that what follows is the reason why what Solomon stated in the previous verse is true. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: “This is due to the fact that”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

קִנְאָ֥ה & נָקָֽם

jealousy & revenge

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of jealousy and vengeance, you could express the same ideas in other ways. Alternate translation: “being jealous … being avenged”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

חֲמַת־גָּ֑בֶר

fury_of husband

Here, heat refers to extreme anger, which causes the angry person’s body to become hot. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “is the rage of a man”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

גָּ֑בֶר וְ⁠לֹֽא־יַ֝חְמ֗וֹל

husband and=not show_~_mercy

Here, man and he refer to the husband who has just found out that his wife has committed adultery. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “a husband of an adulterous woman, and that husband will not spare”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes

וְ⁠לֹֽא־יַ֝חְמ֗וֹל

and=not show_~_mercy

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 positive meaning. Alternate translation: “and he will be merciless”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ⁠לֹֽא־יַ֝חְמ֗וֹל

and=not show_~_mercy

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a clause would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “and he will not spare the man who slept with his wife”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

בְּ⁠י֣וֹם נָקָֽם

in/on=day revenge

Here Solomon is using the possessive form to describe the day when vengeance occurs. If your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “when vengeance occurs”