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  • From: Gerry Folbre <gerry AT wetmountainvalley.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Proverbs 5:6 very wild guess
  • Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:16:41 -0600

kenneth greifer wrote:
Maybe I did not explain my translation good enough. I think the quote is
about the woman whose footsteps lead to death and Sheol in the line before.


"Life isa path. Lest you will make smooth it's wandering (infinitive) (the path's
wandering), her paths you will not know."


If you don't know where she is going, you can't make the wandering of your
life easier or smoother. You just follow her path.


Kenneth Greifer
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Kenneth:
Your exposition does not comply with a word-for-word translation of the Source Text;

Proverbs 5:6 states (using B-Hebrew transliteration):
’RX =* path* XYYM = *life* PN *lest* {that not} TPLS = *you constantly make smooth*

N’W = *they be unstable* M’GLTYH = *her courses of action* L’ = *not* TD’ = *you know*:

The closest exposition to what I have rendered above is found in the KJV:

5:6 “Lest thou [you] shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, /that/ thou [you] canst not know /them/” (KJV).

Let's work from the Source Text.
Gerry Folbre




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