Proverbs 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen carefully as I explain what makes sense,
O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
2 so you can make good decisions and protect knowledge with your lips.
To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
3 For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,
For honey they drip [the] lips of a strange [woman] and [is] smooth more than oil mouth her.
4 but in the end what you get from her is the bitterness of wormwood and the sharp pain of being cut with a two-edged sword.
And end her [is] bitter like wormwood sharp like a sword of mouths.
Feet her [are] going down death Sheol steps her they will attain. (Sheol h7585)
6 She doesn't follow the path that leads to life—she wanders away and doesn't even know she's lost.
[the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
7 Now, my son, listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.
And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
8 Stay far away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!
Make far away from with her way your and may not you draw near to [the] entrance of house her.
9 Otherwise you'll surrender your honor to others, and your character to cruel people.
Lest you should give to others vigor your and years your to a cruel [person].
10 Strangers will spend your wealth; everything you've worked for will go to someone else.
Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
11 When you come to the end of your life you'll moan in pain as disease destroys your body.
And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
12 You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!
And you will say how! I hated discipline and rebuke it spurned heart my.
13 I didn't listen to what my teacher said. I didn't pay attention to my instructors.
And not I listened to [the] voice of instructor my and to teachers my not I inclined ear my.
14 Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”
Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
16 Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?
Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
17 Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.
Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
18 May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.
May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
19 May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.
A doe of loves and a goat of grace breasts her may they satisfy you at every time by love her may you be intoxicated continually.
20 Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?
And why? will you go astray O son my with a strange [woman] may you embrace? [the] bosom of a foreign [woman].
21 For the Lord sees everything people do, the Lord investigates everywhere they go.
For before - [the] eyes of Yahweh [the] ways of a person and all tracks his [he is] making level.
22 The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.
Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
23 They will die because they lack self-control, lost because of their great stupidity.
He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
