5:8 Keep yourself 1 far 2 from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
26:14 Like 3 a door that turns on its hinges, 4
so a sluggard turns 5 on his bed.
1 tn Heb “your way.”
2 sn There is a contrast made between “keep far away” (הַרְחֵק, harkheq) and “do not draw near” (וְאַל־תִּקְרַב, vÿ’al-tiqrav).
3 tn The comparative “like” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied from context in the translation.
4 sn The sluggard is too lazy to get out of bed – although he would probably rationalize this by saying that he is not at his best in the morning. The humor of the verse is based on an analogy with a door – it moves back and forth on its hinges but goes nowhere. Like the door to the wall, the sluggard is “hinged” to his bed (e.g., Prov 6:9-10; 24:33).
5 tn The term “turns” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation from the parallelism.