Proverbs 5
5
Avoid Adultery
1My son,
pay attention to my wisdom.
Open your ears to my understanding
2so that you may act with foresight
and speak with insight.
3The lips of an adulterous woman drip with honey.
Her kiss is smoother than oil,
4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet descend to death.
Her steps lead straight to hell.
6She doesn’t even think about the path of life.
Her steps wander, and she doesn’t realize it.
7But now, sons,
listen to me,
and do not turn away from what I say to you.
8Stay far away from her.
Do not even go near her door.
9Either you will surrender your reputation to others
and ⌞the rest of⌟ your years to some cruel person,
10or strangers will benefit from your strength
and you will have to work hard in a pagan’s house.
11Then you will groan when your end comes,
when your body and flesh are consumed.
You will say,
12“Oh, how I hated discipline!
How my heart despised correction!
13I didn’t listen to what my teachers said to me,
nor did I keep my ear open to my instructors.
14I almost reached total ruin
in the assembly and in the congregation.”
15Drink water out of your own cistern
and running water from your own well.
16Why should water flow out of your spring?
Why should your streams flow into the streets?
17They should be yours alone,
so do not share them with strangers.
18Let your own fountain be blessed,
and enjoy the girl you married when you were young,
19a loving doe and a graceful deer.#5:19 Or “graceful goat.”
Always let her breasts satisfy you.
Always be intoxicated with her love.
20Why should you, my son,
be intoxicated with an adulterous woman
and fondle a loose woman’s breast?
21Each person’s ways are clearly seen by the Lord,
and he surveys all his actions.
22A wicked person will be trapped by his own wrongs,
and he will be caught in the ropes of his own sin.
23He will die for his lack of discipline
and stumble around because of his great stupidity.
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Proverbs 5
5
Beware Seduction
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Incline your ear to my insight,
2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6She does not keep straight to the path of life, her paths are crooked —but she does not know it.
7So now, my sons, listen to me and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your path far from her and do not go near the door of her house—
9lest you give your strength to others and your years to one who is cruel;
10lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
11At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—
12and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
13I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors.
14I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16Should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in public squares?
17Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
19A lovely hind, a graceful doe— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you always be captivated by her love.
20Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?
21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of Adonai, and He observes all his paths.
22The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
23He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
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