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
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,
2 so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.
3 For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.
4 But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.
6 They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.
7 Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.
8 Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.
9 Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
10 Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
11 and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
12 "Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
13 And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?
14 I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly."
15 Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
16 Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.
17 Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
18 Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
19 a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
20 Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
21 The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
22 His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
23 He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.
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