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 thy ear to my understanding:
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy 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] a honey-comb, 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 thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, [that] thou canst 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 ye 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 thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest you should give to others vigor your and years your to a cruel [person].
Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy 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 thy wealth; and thy 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 thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy 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 midst 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 thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Let thy 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 thy own, and not for strangers with thee.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy 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 thee at all times; and be thou 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 wilt thou, 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 pondereth 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.
