Proverbs 5:12-23 Parallel Bible Translations

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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.
14 As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly. 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 from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy 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 Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters. 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 shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee. Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy 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 The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves. 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 wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 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 before the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of man, and he makes level all his tracks. 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 iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast. 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 shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude 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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