Proverbs 5:12-23 ▼

12 And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,

13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, || And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.

14 As a little thing I have been all evil, || In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”

15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.

16 Let your fountains be scattered abroad, || In broad places streams of waters.

17 Let them be to you for yourself, || And not to strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, || And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,

19 A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, || Magnify yourself in her love continually.

20 And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

21 For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths.

22 His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.

23 He dies without instruction, || And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!