Proverbs 5
5
Avoid Seduction
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen closely # Lit wisdom; stretch out your ear to my understanding # Pr 4:20; 22:17
2so that you may maintain discretion
and your lips safeguard knowledge. # Mal 2:7
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are # Lit her palate is smoother than oil,
4in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood # Pr 5:8-11; 6:32-33; Ec 7:26
and as sharp as a double-edged sword. # Ps 55:21; 57:4
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol. # Pr 7:27; 9:18
6She doesn’t consider the path of life;
she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
7So now, my sons, listen to me,
and don’t turn away from the words of my mouth. # Pr 7:24
8Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house. # Pr 2:18; 7:8; 9:14
9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
10strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,
12and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction. # Ps 107:11; Pr 1:7,28-31; 12:1; 13:18
13I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely # Lit or turn my ear to my mentors.
14I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”
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15Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well. # Sg 4:12,15
16Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares? # Pr 7:12
17They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
18Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. # Ec 9:9; Mal 2:14
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn —
let her breasts always satisfy you; # Sg 4:5
be lost in her love forever.
20Why, my son, would you be infatuated
with a forbidden woman
or embrace the breast of a stranger? # Pr 2:16
21For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, # Jb 14:16; Ps 119:168; Hs 7:2; Heb 4:13
and He considers all his paths. # Pr 4:25-26
22A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; # Nm 32:23; Ps 7:15-16
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. # Pr 11:6
23He will die because there is no discipline, # Jb 4:21
and be lost because of his great stupidity.
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Proverbs 5
5
Pitfalls of Immorality
1My son, give attention to my wisdom,
Incline your ear to my understanding;
2That you may observe discretion
And your lips may reserve knowledge.
3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol.
6She does not ponder the path of life;
Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.
7Now then, my sons, listen to me
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,
9Or you will give your vigor to others
And your years to the cruel one;
10And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
11And you groan at your final end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;
12And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!
13I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to my instructors!
14I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
15Drink water from your own cistern
And fresh water from your own well.
16Should your springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17Let them be yours alone
And not for strangers with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 As a loving hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be exhilarated always with her love.
20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He watches all his paths.
22His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
23He will die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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