Proverbs 5
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1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding 1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. 2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4in the end she's as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword. 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6She doesn't consider the path of life; she doesn't know that her ways are unstable. 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7So now, my sons, listen to me, and don't turn away from the words of my mouth. 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your way far from her. Don't go near the door of her house. 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner's house. 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors. 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community." 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers. 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn-- let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever. 19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger? 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For a man's ways are before the LORD's eyes, and He considers all his paths. 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22A wicked man's iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity. 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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