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Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5:1 ^
My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Proverbs 5:1 ^
My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
Proverbs 5:2 ^
So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:2 ^
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 ^
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5:3 ^
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 5:4 ^
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
Proverbs 5:4 ^
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 ^
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Proverbs 5:5 ^
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
Proverbs 5:6 ^
She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
Proverbs 5:6 ^
So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
Proverbs 5:7 ^
Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
Proverbs 5:7 ^
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 ^
Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
Proverbs 5:8 ^
Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
Proverbs 5:9 ^
For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
Proverbs 5:9 ^
Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
Proverbs 5:10 ^
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Proverbs 5:10 ^
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,
Proverbs 5:11 ^
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Proverbs 5:11 ^
And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 ^
And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
Proverbs 5:12 ^
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:13 ^
I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
Proverbs 5:13 ^
Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14 ^
I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
Proverbs 5:14 ^
I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
Proverbs 5:15 ^
Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Proverbs 5:15 ^
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 ^
Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
Proverbs 5:16 ^
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
Proverbs 5:17 ^
Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
Proverbs 5:17 ^
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 ^
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Proverbs 5:18 ^
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:19 ^
As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Proverbs 5:19 ^
[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
Proverbs 5:20 ^
Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Proverbs 5:20 ^
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Proverbs 5:21 ^
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Proverbs 5:21 ^
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22 ^
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:22 ^
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23 ^
He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Proverbs 5:23 ^
He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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