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
1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
2That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
6They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
7Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
11And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
13And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
14I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
16Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
17Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
19Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.
20Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
23He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
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