Proverbs 5:1-13 Parallel Bible Translations

Proverbs 5:1-13 ▼
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1 My son, attend to my wisdom; incline thine ear to 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 To watch meditation, and thy lips shall guard knowledge. that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above 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 And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed 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 will hold fast to hades. 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 Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know. 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 And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of 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 Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to 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 Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the 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 Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers; 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 And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness, 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 thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs. 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 And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me. 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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