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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Mishlĕ (Proverbs) 5
5
1My son, listen to my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding,
2So as to watch over discretion, And your lips guard knowledge.
3For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of She’ol.
6She does not consider the path of life; Her ways are unstable – you do not know it.
7So now, listen to me, you children, And do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your way far from her, And do not come near the door of her house,
9Lest you give your splendour to others, And your years to one who is cruel;
10Lest strangers be filled with your strength, And your labours go to the house of a foreigner.
11Then you shall howl in your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12And shall say, “How I have hated discipline, And my heart has despised reproof!
13“And I have not heeded the voice of my teachers, And I have not inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14“In a little while I was in all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
15Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.
16Should your springs be scattered abroad, Rivers of water in the streets?
17Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth –
19A loving deer and a pleasant doe! Let her nipples satisfy you at all times. And be captivated by her love always.
20For why should you, my son, Be captivated by a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21For the ways of man Are before the eyes of יהוה, And He considers all his paths.
22The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
23He dies for lack of discipline, And in the greatness of his folly He goes astray.
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