Proverbs 5
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1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding 1My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
2so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. 2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, 3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
4in the end she's as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword. 4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
6She doesn't consider the path of life; she doesn't know that her ways are unstable. 6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
7So now, my sons, listen to me, and don't turn away from the words of my mouth. 7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
8Keep your way far from her. Don't go near the door of her house. 8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; 9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
10strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner's house. 10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.
11At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, 11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
12and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. 12And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
13I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors. 13For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
14I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community." 14I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"
15Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. 15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
17They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers. 17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. 18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife--
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn-- let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever. 19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
20Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger? 20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
21For a man's ways are before the LORD's eyes, and He considers all his paths. 21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths.
22A wicked man's iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin. 22The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
23He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity. 23He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
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