Proverbs 5
1 O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ears to my understanding,
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
so you may learn about discretion and your lips may protect 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 with honey and 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, cutting like a sharp sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps go all the way 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 path of life. Her footsteps wander; she does not know where she is going.
7 And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Now, my sons, listen to me; do not turn away from listening to 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.
Keep your path far away from her and 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].
In that way you will not give away your honor to others or years of your life to a cruel person;
10 Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
strangers will not feast on your wealth; what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.
11 And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body waste away.
12 And you will say how! I hated discipline and rebuke it spurned heart my.
You will say, “How I hated instruction and my heart despised correction!
13 And not I listened to [the] voice of instructor my and to teachers my not I inclined ear my.
I would not obey my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
I was almost completely ruined in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.”
15 Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
Drink water from your own cistern and drink running water from your own well.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Should your springs overflow everywhere and your streams of water flow 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 and not for strangers with you.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
May your fountain be blessed and may you 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.
for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be continually intoxicated by 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 by an adulteress; why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman?
21 For before - [the] eyes of Yahweh [the] ways of a person and all tracks his [he is] making level.
Yahweh sees everything a person does and watches all the paths he takes.
22 Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities; the cords of his sin will hold him tight.
23 He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
He will die because he lacks instruction; he is led astray by his great foolishness.
