Proverbiorum 5
1 fili mi adtende 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
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 favus enim stillans 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 ambulat 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 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 adpropinques 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 impleantur 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 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 adquievit 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 paene 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 adulescentiae tuae
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 cerva carissima et gratissimus hinulus ubera eius inebrient te omni tempore in amore illius 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 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 illius considerat
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
22 iniquitates suae 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 multitudine stultitiae suae decipietur
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
