| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: | 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight, |
| 2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. | 2so you may carefully practice discretion and your lips preserve knowledge. |
| 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | 3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. |
| 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | 4But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword. |
| 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | 5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol. |
| 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | 6You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it. |
| 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | 7Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying. |
| 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | 8Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house, |
| 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | 9so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years; |
| 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | 10so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners. |
| 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | 11You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed, |
| 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | 12and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction! |
| 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | 13I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors. |
| 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | 14Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation." |
| 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | 15Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well. |
| 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | 16Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street? |
| 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | 17They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you. |
| 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | 18Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth. |
| 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. | 19Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love. |
| 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | 20Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? |
| 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | 21Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths. |
| 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | 22The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. |
| 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | 23He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly. |
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