Proverbs 5
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1My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding, 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge. 2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil, 3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it. 6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak. 7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house. 10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!" 14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. 15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas? 16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife--18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. 19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths. 21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin. 22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
23He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel. 23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
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