Proverbs 5:11-23 Parallel Bible Translations

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11 Then you will groan when your end comes, when your body and flesh are consumed. You will say, 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 |Oh, how I hated discipline! 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 listen to what my teachers said to me, nor did I keep my ear open 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.
14 I almost reached total ruin in the assembly and in the congregation.| I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
15 Drink water out of your own cistern and running water from your own well. Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Why should water flow out of your spring? Why should your streams flow into the streets? Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 They should be yours alone, so do not share them with strangers. Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Let your own fountain be blessed, and enjoy the girl you married when you were young, Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 a loving doe and a graceful deer. Always let her breasts satisfy you. Always be intoxicated with her love. a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman's breast? Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
21 Each person's ways are clearly seen by the LORD, and he surveys all his actions. For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.
22 A wicked person will be trapped by his own wrongs, and he will be caught in the ropes of his own sin. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
23 He will die for his lack of discipline and stumble around because of his great stupidity. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
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