Proverbs 5
1 My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen carefully as I explain what makes sense,
2 That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
so you can make good decisions and protect knowledge with your lips.
3 For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,
4 But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
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.
She leads you down to death; she takes you down to the grave. (Sheol h7585)
6 She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
She doesn't follow the path that leads to life—she wanders away and doesn't even know she's lost.
7 Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
Now, my son, listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.
8 Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
Stay far away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!
9 Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
Otherwise you'll surrender your honor to others, and your character to cruel people.
10 Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
Strangers will spend your wealth; everything you've worked for will go to someone else.
11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
When you come to the end of your life you'll moan in pain as disease destroys your body.
12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!
13 And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
I didn't listen to what my teacher said. I didn't pay attention to my instructors.
14 I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”
15 Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16 Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?
17 But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.
18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.
19 Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
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.
20 For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?
21 For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
For the Lord sees everything people do, the Lord investigates everywhere they go.
22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.
23 Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
They will die because they lack self-control, lost because of their great stupidity.
