Proverbiorum 5
1 Fili mi, attende ad sapientiam meam, et prudentiae meae inclina aurem tuam,
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
2 ut custodias cogitationes, et disciplinam labia tua conservent. Ne attendas fallaciae mulieris.
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 favus enim distillans labia meretricis, et nitidius oleo guttur eius.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 novissima autem illius amara quasi absinthium, et acuta quasi gladius biceps.
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 Per semitam vitae non ambulant, vagi sunt gressus eius, et investigabiles.
Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
7 Nunc ergo fili mi audi me, et ne recedas a verbis oris mei.
Hear me now therefore, O all of you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 Longe fac ab ea viam tuam, et ne appropinques foribus domus eius.
Remove your way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Ne des alienis honorem tuum, et annos tuos crudeli.
Lest you give your honour unto others, and your years unto the cruel:
10 ne forte implentur extranei viribus tuis, et labores tui sint in domo aliena,
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 et gemas in novissimis, quando consumpseris carnes tuas et corpus tuum, et dicas:
And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 Cur detestatus sum disciplinam, et increpationibus non acquievit cor meum,
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 nec audivi vocem docentium me, et magistris non inclinavi aurem meam?
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 Pene fui in omni malo, in medio ecclesiae et synagogae.
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Bibe aquam de cisterna tua, et fluenta putei tui:
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
16 Deriventur fontes tui foras, et in plateis aquas tuas divide.
Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Habeto eas solus, nec sint alieni participes tui.
Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.
18 Sit vena tua benedicta, et laetare cum muliere adolescentiae tuae:
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 cerva charissima, et gratissimus hinnulus. ubera eius inebrient te in omni tempore, in amore eius delectare iugiter.
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 Quare seduceris fili mi ab aliena, et foveris in sinu alterius?
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 Respicit Dominus vias hominis, et omnes gressus eius considerat.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
22 Iniquitates suas capiunt impium, et funibus peccatorum suorum constringitur.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
23 Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam, et in multitudine stultitiae suae decipietur.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
