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Proverbs 5
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1[My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply your ear to my words;
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
2that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:
3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.
5Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
7Now then, [my] son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
8Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
8Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
9lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless:
9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
10lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labors come into the houses of strangers;
10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
11And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,
11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
13I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply my ear.
13I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
14I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
15Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.
15Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
16Let not waters out of your fountain be spilled by you, but let your waters go into your streets.
16Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
17Let them be only your own, and let no stranger partake with you.
17Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
18Let your fountain of water be [truly] your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19Let [your] loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.
19A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.
20For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.
23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.