Proverbs 5
1 O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;
2 To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
That thou mayest preserve 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 honey, 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 the nether-world; (Sheol h7585)
6 [the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
7 And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, 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 vigour unto others, and thy years unto 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 strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
11 And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
And thou moan, when thine end cometh, 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.
Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
I was well nigh 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 thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
17 Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of 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.
A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
20 And why? will you go astray O son my with a strange [woman] may you embrace? [the] bosom of a foreign [woman].
Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
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 maketh even all his paths.
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 ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
23 He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
