PRO 31:3 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Do not give to women your strength
⇔ or your ways to cause kings to be wiped out.

UST Do not give your strength to women;
⇔ and do not tell what your plans are, to the women who destroy kings.

BSB Do not spend your strength on women
⇔ or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

OEB Give not your strength to women,
⇔ nor your love to those that slay kings.

WEBBE Don’t give your strength to women,
⇔ nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Do not give your strength to women,
⇔ nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

LSV Do not give your strength to women,
And your ways to wiping away of kings.

FBV Don't waste your strength sleeping[fn] with women, those that bring down kings.

31:3 “Sleeping” implied.

T4T Do not exhaust your energy having sex [EUP] with women to whom you are not married,
⇔ with women who ruin kings by having sex with them.

LEB • and your ways to destroy kings.

BBE Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

ASV Give not thy strength unto women,
⇔ Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

DRA Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings.

YLT Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

Drby Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.

RV Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Wbstr Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

KJB-1769 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
(Give not thy/your strength unto women, nor thy/your ways to that which destroyeth kings. )

KJB-1611 Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes to that which destroyeth kings.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Geue not ouer thy strength & wayes vnto women, which are the destruction euen of kynges.
(Give not over thy/your strength and ways unto women, which are the destruction even of kings.)

Gnva Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes, which is to destroy Kings.
(Give not thy/your strength unto women, nor thy/your ways, which is to destroy Kings. )

Cvdl geue not ouer thy substaunce & mynde vnto women, which are the destruccio eue of kynges.
(geue not over thy/your substance and mind unto women, which are the destruccio eue of kings.)

Wycl Yyue thou not thi catel to wymmen, and thi richessis to do awei kyngis.
(Yyue thou/you not thy/your cattle to women, and thy/your richessis to do away kings.)

Luth laß nicht den Weibern dein Vermögen und gehe die Wege nicht, darin sich die Könige verderben!
(laß not the women your Vermögen and go the ways not, darin itself/yourself/themselves the kings/king verderben!)

ClVg Ne dederis mulieribus substantiam tuam, et divitias tuas ad delendos reges.[fn]
(Ne dederis mulieribus substantiam your, and divitias tuas to delendos reges. )

31.3 Et divitias tuas. Hoc est, noli terrenis deliciis hominum corda corrumpere, etc., usque ad per illecebras sæculi merentur eradicari de terra viventium.

31.3 And divitias tuas. This it_is, noli terrenis deliciis of_men corda corrumpere, etc., until to through illecebras sæculi merentur eradicari about earth/land viventium.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism

אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן לַ⁠נָּשִׁ֣ים חֵילֶ֑⁠ךָ

not give to_the,women strength,your

Lemuel’s mother is referring to sex in a polite way by using the phrase give your strength to women. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a polite way of referring to this in your language, or you could state this plainly. Alternate translation: “Do not tire yourself out with women” or “Do not waste your energy on having sex with women”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וּ֝⁠דְרָכֶ֗י⁠ךָ

and,ways,your

Here, your ways could mean: (1) the same as your strength in the previous clause, which is parallel to this clause. Alternate translation: “or your vigor” (2) a person’s regular behavior, which is what ways usually means in Proverbs. Alternate translation: “or what you do”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

לַֽ⁠מְח֥וֹת מְלָכִֽין

to,destroy kings

The parallelism between this clause and the previous clause indicates that this phrase refers to women who cause kings to be wiped out. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “to those women who cause kings to be wiped out”

Parallel PRO 31:3