Proverbs 5
5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Turn your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may maintain discretion,
that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey.
Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead straight to Sheol.#5:5 Sheol is the place of the dead.
6 She gives no thought to the way of life.
Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me.
Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove your way far from her.
Don’t come near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your honour to others,
and your years to the cruel one;
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth,
and your labours enrich another man’s house.
11 You will groan at your latter end,
when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 and say, “How I have hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof.
13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers,
nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
amongst the gathered assembly.”
15 Drink water out of your own cistern,
running water out of your own well.
16Should your springs overflow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be for yourself alone,
not for strangers with you.
18 Let your spring be blessed.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe and a graceful deer—
let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
Be captivated always with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes.
He examines all his paths.
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him.
The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23 He will die for lack of instruction.
In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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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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