Proverbs 5
5
A Warning Against Committing Adultery
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Listen carefully to my wise sayings.
2Then you will continue to have good sense.
Your lips will keep on speaking words of knowledge.
3A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey.
What she says is smoother than olive oil.
4But in the end she is like bitter poison.
She cuts like a sword that has two edges.
5Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead straight to the grave.
6She doesn’t give any thought to her way of life.
Her paths have no direction, but she doesn’t realize it.
7My sons, listen to me.
Don’t turn away from what I say.
8Stay on a path far away from that evil woman.
Don’t even go near the door of her house.
9If you do, you will lose your honor to other people.
You will give your self-respect to someone who is mean.
10Strangers will use up all your wealth.
Your hard work will make someone else rich.
11At the end of your life you will groan.
Your skin and your body will be worn out.
12You will say, “How I hated to take advice!
How my heart refused to be corrected!
13I would not obey my teachers.
I wouldn’t listen to those who taught me.
14I was soon in deep trouble.
It happened right in front of the whole assembly of God’s people.”
15Drink water from your own well.
Drink running water from your own spring.
16Should your springs pour out into the streets?
Should your streams of water pour out in public places?
17No! Let them belong to you alone.
Never share them with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed.
May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.
19She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer.
May her breasts always satisfy you.
May you always be captured by her love.
20My son, why be captured by another man’s wife?
Why hug a woman who has gone astray?
21The Lord watches your ways.
He studies all your paths.
22Sinners are trapped by their own evil acts.
They are held tight by the ropes of their sins.
23They will die because they refused to be corrected.
Their sins will capture them because they were very foolish.
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Proverbs 5
5
Avoid Seduction
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen closely#5:1 Lit wisdom; stretch out your ear to my understanding#Pr 4:20; 22:17
2so that you may maintain discretion
and your lips safeguard knowledge.#Mal 2:7
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are#5:3 Lit her palate is smoother than oil,
4in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood#Pr 5:8–11; 6:32–33; Ec 7:26
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.#Ps 55:21; 57:4
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.#Pr 7:27; 9:18
6She doesn’t consider the path of life;
she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
7So now, sons, listen to me,
and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth.#Pr 7:24
8Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.#Pr 2:18; 7:8; 9:14
9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
10strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,
12and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.#Ps 107:11; Pr 1:7,28–31; 12:1; 13:18
13I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely#5:13 Lit or turn my ear to my instructors.
14I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”
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15Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.#Sg 4:12,15
16Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams in the public squares?#Pr 7:12
17They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
18Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.#Ec 9:9; Mal 2:14
19A loving deer, a graceful doe#5:19 Or graceful mountain goat —
let her breasts always satisfy you;#Sg 4:5
be lost in her love forever.
20Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?#Pr 2:16
21For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,#Jb 14:16; Ps 119:168; Hs 7:2; Heb 4:13
and he considers all his paths.#Pr 4:25–26
22A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;#Nm 32:23; Ps 7:15–16
he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.#Pr 11:6
23He will die because there is no discipline,#Jb 4:21
and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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