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