Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Harold:

Ignore other translations and traditions, what are the grammatical reasons 
not to read:

M(YNTYK as a simple plural of (YN meaning eyes? Almost all the time (YN is in 
dual. But is it not a feminine noun, so the simple plural would end in -WT ? 
Correct me if I am wrong.

That would make the translation "Be dispersed away from your eyes outwards 
into the broad streets (broad areas?) the channels of water", in other words 
a poetic way of saying not to look at other sources, so within the context 
not to be looking at other women?

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
> 
> 
> HH: The NIV takes it as a question, as does the HCSB. This goes 
> back at least as far as the ASV. The problem is that taken as a 
> declaration, Prov 5:16 would seem to contradict both 5:15 and 5:17, 
> the verses before and after it. They suggest the value of privacy 
> and guarding what is one's own, not letting it pour out in the 
> public streets:
> 
> Prov. 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from 
> your own well.
> Prov. 5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your 
> streams of water in the public squares?
> Prov. 5:17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
> 
>                               Yours,
>                               Harold Holmyard
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