PRO 5:7 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX Νῦν οὖν υἱὲ ἄκουέ μου, καὶ μὴ ἀκύρους ποιήσεις ἐμοὺς λόγους.
(Nun oun huie akoue mou, kai maʸ akurous poiaʸseis emous logous. )

ULT And now, sons, listen to me;
⇔ and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

UST So now, children, pay attention to what I say!
⇔ Always remember what I have spoken to you!

BSB ⇔ So now, my sons, listen to me,
⇔ and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

OEB And now, my son, listen to me;
⇔ Do not turn from the words that I speak.

WEBBE ⇔ Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
⇔ Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET So now, children, listen to me;
⇔ do not turn aside from the words I speak.

LSV And now, you sons, listen to me,
And do not turn from sayings of my mouth.

FBV Now, my son,[fn] listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.

5:7 The Hebrew has the plural “sons” here, but for the rest of the chapter uses singular pronouns, so “son” is used here, following the Septuagint and the Vulgate.

T4T ⇔ So now, my sons, listen to me.
⇔ ◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.

LEB • do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.

BBE Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

ASV ⇔ Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
⇔ And depart not from the words of my mouth.

DRA Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

YLT And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Drby And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

RV Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Wbstr Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

KJB-1769 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
(Hear me now therefore, O ye/you_all children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. )

KJB-1611 Heare me now therefore, O yee children: & depart not from the words of my mouth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Heare me nowe therefore O ye chyldren, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Gnva Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
(Hear ye/you_all me now therefore, O children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. )

Cvdl Heare me therfore (o my sonne) and departe not fro the wordes of my mouth.
(Hear me therefore (o my son) and depart not from the words of my mouth.)

Wycl Now therfor, my sone, here thou me, and go not awei fro the wordis of my mouth.
(Now therefore, my son, here thou/you me, and go not away from the words of my mouth.)

Luth So gehorchet mir nun, meine Kinder, und weichet nicht von der Rede meines Mundes!
(So gehorchet to_me now, my children, and weichet not from the/of_the Rede my Mundes!)

ClVg Nunc ergo fili mi, audi me, et ne recedas a verbis oris mei.
(Nunc therefore son mi, listen me, and not recedas from verbis oris my/mine. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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 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 mouth,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.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠אַל־תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ מֵ⁠אִמְרֵי־פִֽ⁠י

and,not depart from,words mouth,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 mouth,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 mouth,my

See how you translated the sayings of my mouth in 4:5.

Parallel PRO 5:7