# Surging waters cannot quench love

Love is like a fire that is so hot that it cannot be put out even with an ocean full of water.

# Surging waters

"Oceans of water" or "Huge amounts of water"

# cannot quench

"cannot extinguish" or "cannot put out"

# nor can floods sweep it away

Love is like something that not even a powerful flood can move. In Israel, water from the rain flows into deep and narrow valleys, creating a flood so powerful that it can move huge boulders and trees.

# sweep it away

"carry it away" or "wash it away"

# If a man gave ... the offer would be utterly despised

"Even if a man ... he would be utterly despised". Love is so valuable that even all a man's possessions would not be enough to buy love.

# all the possessions in his house

"everything he owns"

# for love

"in order to get love" or "in order to buy love"

# the offer would be utterly despised

"people would completely despise it"