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# General Information:
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These verses continue the "thirty sayings" ([Proverbs 22:20](../22/20.md)).
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# give me your heart
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The word "heart" is a metonym for what a person thinks and decides to do. Possible meanings are 1) "pay careful attention" or 2) "trust me completely." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# let your eyes observe
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The eyes are a synecdoche for the whole person. AT: "observe" or "look carefully at" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# prostitute ... immoral woman
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There are two types of sexually immoral women. The "prostitute" is unmarried, "another man's wife" is married. Together they form a merism for any kind of sexually immoral woman. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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# a prostitute is a deep pit
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The word "pit" is a metaphor for what happens to men who sleep with prostitutes. AT: "sleeping with a prostitute is like falling into a deep pit" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# prostitute
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Here the word refers to any unmarried woman who engages in sexual activity, not only those who do so for money.
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# deep pit ... narrow well
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These are two places easy to fall into and hard to get out of, the "pit" because it is "deep" and the "well" because it is "narrow."
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# an immoral woman is a narrow well
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Doing evil for which one will be punished is spoken of as falling into a narrow place from which one cannot escape. AT: "Sleeping with another man's wife is like falling into a narrow well" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# well
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a hole in the ground that people have dug to get to water
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# lies in wait
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stays hidden, ready to attack when a victim approaches
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# the treacherous
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This nominal adjective can be translated as an adjective or verb. AT: "treacherous people" or "those who harm others by deceiving them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/son]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heart]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prostitute]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/pit]] |