Proverbs 5
1 My son! Give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 To observe thoughtfulness, And your lips keep knowledge.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,
For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
4 And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. (Sheol h7585)
6 The path of life—lest you ponder, Her paths have moved—you do not know.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 And now, you sons, listen to me, And do not turn from sayings of my mouth.
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from off her, And do not come near to the opening of her house,
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 Lest you give your splendor to others, And your years to the fierce,
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 Lest strangers be filled [with] your power, And your labors in the house of a stranger,
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And you have howled in your latter end, In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 And have said, “How I have hated instruction, And my heart has despised reproof,
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, Even flowing ones out of your own well.
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 Let your fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places streams of waters.
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 Let them be to you for yourself, And not to strangers with you.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy 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.
Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
20 And why do you magnify yourself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, And He is pondering all his paths.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 His own iniquities capture the wicked, And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23 He dies without instruction, And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
