Proverbs 5:18-23 Parallel Bible Translations

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18 Let your fountain be blessed, || And rejoice because of the wife of your youth, 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 doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, || Magnify yourself in her love continually. 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 And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? 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 For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths. 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 His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his 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 dies without instruction, || And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly! 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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