Proverbs 5
1 O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For honey they drip [the] lips of a strange [woman] and [is] smooth more than oil mouth her.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 And end her [is] bitter like wormwood sharp like a sword of mouths.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. (Sheol h7585)
6 [the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
7 And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not 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, and come not 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:
10 Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
11 And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
And you mourn at the last, 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 have I 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.
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
14 Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
Let them be only your own, and not strangers’ with you.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with 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.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished 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].
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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 eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.
22 Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
23 He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
