Proverbs 5:1-13 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,
2 so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
4 in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword. but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
6 She doesn’t consider the path of life; she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable. she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.
7 So now, sons, listen to me, and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say.
8 Keep your way far from her. Don’t go near the door of her house. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel,
10 strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house. lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
11 At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
13 I didn’t obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors. I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.
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