| Prov. 5:1 |
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; / Incline your ear to my understanding, |
| Prov. 5:2 |
That you may keep discretion, / And your lips may guard knowledge. |
| Prov. 5:3 |
For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, / And her mouth is smoother than oil; |
| Prov. 5:4 |
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, / Sharp as a two-edged sword. |
| Prov. 5:5 |
Her feet go down to death; / Her steps hold fast to Sheol. |
| Prov. 5:6 |
She does not make straight the path of life: / Her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it.] |
| Prov. 5:7 |
And now, [my] sons, listen to me, / And do not depart from the words of my mouth. |
| Prov. 5:8 |
Keep your way far from her, / And do not go near the door of her house; |
| Prov. 5:9 |
Lest you give your honor to others, / And your years to the cruel; |
| Prov. 5:10 |
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, / And your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner, |
| Prov. 5:11 |
And you mourn at your end, / When your flesh and your body are consumed, |
| Prov. 5:12 |
And you say, How I have hated instruction, / And my heart has despised reproof! |
| Prov. 5:13 |
And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers / Nor inclined my ear to my instructors; |
| Prov. 5:14 |
I was almost into every evil / In the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| Prov. 5:15 |
Drink waters out of your own cistern, / And running water out of your own well. |
| Prov. 5:16 |
Should your springs be shed forth, / [Like] streams of water in the streets? |
| Prov. 5:17 |
Let them be yours alone, / And not for strangers with you. |
| Prov. 5:18 |
Let your fountain be blessed, / And rejoice in the wife of your youth, |
| Prov. 5:19 |
A lovely hind and a graceful doe. / Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. / May you be ravished with her love always. |
| Prov. 5:20 |
For why should you be ravished, my son, with a strange woman / And embrace the bosom of an adulteress? |
| Prov. 5:21 |
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Jehovah, / And He ponders all his paths. |
| Prov. 5:22 |
The wicked man is taken by his own iniquities, / And he is held fast by the cords of his own sin. |
| Prov. 5:23 |
He will die for lack of instruction, / And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray. |