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.
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From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
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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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