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The lazy person says
The quote that follows is a lie and an excuse for not working. If your language introduces false statements in a special way, you can use that here.
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit
The word "mouth" is a metonym for the words that come out of the mouth. The writer speaks of a person being unable to escape having people punish him for evil deeds as if that person had fallen into a hole someone had dug in the ground from which he could not escape. AT: "The words spoken by an adulteress will draw you in, and it will be as if you have fallen into a deep and dangerous pit" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
an adulteress
See how you translated this in Proverbs 5:3.
Yahweh's anger is stirred up
Here "stirred up" means that his anger increased. AT: "Yahweh is angry" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
falls into it
Adultery is spoken of as if it is something that a person can fall into. AT: "sins because of the adulteress" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)