Proverbs 5
1 O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For honey they drip [the] lips of a strange [woman] and [is] smooth more than oil mouth her.
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 And end her [is] bitter like wormwood sharp like a sword of mouths.
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol (Sheol h7585).
6 [the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she does not know it.
7 And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Make far away from with her way your and may not you draw near to [the] entrance of house her.
Remove your way far from her. Do not come near the door of her house,
9 Lest you should give to others vigor your and years your to a cruel [person].
lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
11 And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And you will say how! I hated discipline and rebuke it spurned heart my.
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
13 And not I listened to [the] voice of instructor my and to teachers my not I inclined ear my.
I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
14 Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
15 Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 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.
A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20 And why? will you go astray O son my with a strange [woman] may you embrace? [the] bosom of a foreign [woman].
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 For before - [the] eyes of Yahweh [the] ways of a person and all tracks his [he is] making level.
For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
22 Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23 He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
