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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"