The Book of Proverbs

Chapter-5

Proverbs 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,

 

Proverbs 5:2 so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.

 

Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.

 

Proverbs 5:4 But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

 

Proverbs 5:5 Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.

 

Proverbs 5:6 They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.

 

Proverbs 5:7 Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.

 

Proverbs 5:8 Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.

 

Proverbs 5:9 Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.

 

Proverbs 5:10 Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,

 

Proverbs 5:11 and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:

 

Proverbs 5:12 “Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?

 

Proverbs 5:13 And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?

 

Proverbs 5:14 I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”

 

Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.

 

Proverbs 5:16 Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.

 

Proverbs 5:17 Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.

 

Proverbs 5:18 Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:

 

Proverbs 5:19 a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.

 

Proverbs 5:20 Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?

 

Proverbs 5:21 The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.

 

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.

 

Proverbs 5:23 He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.