“Blessed [happy, prosperous, to be admired] is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at my doorposts.

Let your way [in life] be far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

She sits at the doorway of her house,
On a seat by the high and conspicuous places of the city,

As the door turns on its hinges,
So does the lazy person on his bed [never getting out of it].