This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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Keep your father's precept, my child, do not spurn your mother's teaching.21Bind them ever to your heart, tie them round your neck.22While you are active, they will guide you, when you fall asleep, they will watch over you, when you wake up, they will converse with you.23For the precept is a lamp, the teaching is a light; correction and discipline are the way to life,24preserving you from the woman of bad character, from the wheedling talk of a woman who belongs to another.
25Do not covet her beauty in your heart or let her captivate you with the play of her eyes; 26 a prostitute can be bought for a hunk of bread, but a married woman aims to snare a precious life.27 Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without setting his clothes alight? 28Can you walk on red-hot coals without burning your feet? 29Just so, the man who makes love to his neighbor’s wife: no one who touches her will get off unpunished. 30People attach but little blame to a thief who steals only to satisfy his hunger; 31yet even he, if caught, will have to repay sevenfold and hand over all his family resources.
32But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction. 33All he will get is blows and contempt, and dishonor never to be blotted out. 34For jealousy inflames the husband who will show no mercy when the day comes for revenge;35he will not consider any compensation; lavish what gifts you may, he will not be placated.
keep = נָצַר = nāṣar Blue Letter Bible watch over; observe, guard with fidelity; kept close, be blockaded; protect, maintain, obey; preserve
father = אָב = 'āḇ Blue Letter Bible father of an individual; God as father of his people; head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan; ancestor; originator or patron of a class, profession, or art; producer, generator (fig.); author; generator; figure of benevolence and protection (fig.);bringer up, nourisher; master; teacher; term of respect and honour; ruler or chief (spec.); principal
precept = מִצְוָה = miṣvâ Blue Letter Bible commandment; law, ordinance, precept
child = בֵּן = bēn Blue Letter Bible son, grandson, child, member of a group; male child; young men; children (pl. - male and female); foster son; disciple; one related to a time, place, emotion, condition, status; term of kindliness or endearment; expression of intimate and gracious relation
teaching = תּוֹרָה = tôrâ Blue Letter Bible law; instruction, direction (human or divine); body of prophetic teaching; instruction in Messianic age; body of legal directives; custom, manner; the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law; precept; statute; doctrine
bind = קָשַׁר = qāšar Blue Letter Bible to bind, tie, bind together, league together, conspire; confine; robust, vigorous
ever = תָּמִיד = tamiyd Blue Letter Bible continually, continuously; constant (or adverbially, constantly); alway(-s); perpetual
heart = לֵב = lēḇ Blue Letter Bible inner man, mind, will, understanding; midst; soul; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); conscience; seat of appetites, emotions, passions, courage; feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything
bind = עָנַד = ʿānaḏ Blue Letter Bible bind, tie up, bind around or upon; lace fast
neck = גַּרְגְּרוֹת = gargᵊrôṯ Blue Letter Bible neck, throat
active = הָלַךְ = halak Blue Letter Bible to go; proceed, move; enter; follow; go along; proceed; to go with, have intercourse with; to go after; pursue; live, manner of life; go on, go forward; traverse; march; flow, be poured out
guide = נָחָה = nachah Blue Letter Bible to lead, guide; by implication, to transport; govern
sleep = שָׁכַב = šāḵaḇ Blue Letter Bible to lie down; lodge; rest, relax; sleep; prostrate; pour out
watch = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
wake = קוּץ = qûṣ Blue Letter Bible awake, wake up; awaken, arouse, show signs of waking
converse = שִׂיחַ = śîaḥ Blue Letter Bible put forth, mediate, muse, commune, speak, complain, ponder; talk, sing, speak; meditate, consider, put forth thoughts; converse, utter, declare, pray
precept = מִצְוָה = miṣvâ Blue Letter Bible commandment; law, ordinance, precept
lamp = נִיר = nîr Blue Letter Bible from a primitive root properly, meaning to glisten; a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively); candle, lamp, light; guide
teaching = תּוֹרָה = tôrâ Blue Letter Bible law; instruction, direction (human or divine); body of prophetic teaching; instruction in Messianic age; body of legal directives; custom, manner; the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law; precept; statute; doctrine
reproof = תּוֹכֵחָה = towkechah Blue Letter Bible rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement; argument, impeachment; refutation; chiding; arguing down, contradicting
discipline = מוּסָר = muwcar Blue Letter Bible discipline, chastening, correction; reproof, warning or instruction; doctrine, instruction, rebuke; admonition; restraint
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
life = חַי = ḥay Blue Letter Bible living, alive; green (of vegetation); flowing, fresh (of water); lively, active (of man); reviving (of the springtime); appetite; raw; springing; vigorous; prosperity, welfare; living one, fountain of life; community
preserving = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
covet = חָמַד = ḥāmaḏ Blue Letter Bible desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in; covet, delectable thing; lust; find precious; praise, eulogize, approve of; inordinate, ungoverned, selfish desire; idolatrous tendency
captivate = לָקַח = lāqaḥ Blue Letter Bible to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire; take and carry along; take from, take out of, take, carry away, take away; take (in the widest variety of applications)
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