Proverbs 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
O son my to wisdom my be attentive! to understanding my incline ear your.
2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
To preserve discretion and knowledge lips your they will observe.
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
For honey they drip [the] lips of a strange [woman] and [is] smooth more than oil mouth her.
4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
And end her [is] bitter like wormwood sharp like a sword of mouths.
Feet her [are] going down death Sheol steps her they will attain. (Sheol h7585)
6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
[the] path of Life lest she should make level they wander tracks her not she knows.
7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
And therefore O children listen to me and may not you depart from [the] utterances of mouth my.
8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
Make far away from with her way your and may not you draw near to [the] entrance of house her.
9 lest you give your honour to others, and your years to the cruel one;
Lest you should give to others vigor your and years your to a cruel [person].
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labours enrich another man’s house.
Lest they should be satisfied strangers strength your and labor your [be] in [the] house of a foreigner.
11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
And you will groan at end your when wastes away flesh your and body your.
12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
And you will say how! I hated discipline and rebuke it spurned heart my.
13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
And not I listened to [the] voice of instructor my and to teachers my not I inclined ear my.
14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, amongst the gathered assembly.”
Like a little I was in every calamity in among [the] assembly and [the] congregation.
15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
Drink water from own cistern your and streams from [the] midst of own well your.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
Will they overflow? springs your [the] outside towards in the open places streams of water.
17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Let them belong to you to alone you and not to strangers with you.
18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
May it be spring your blessed and rejoice from [the] wife of youth your.
19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
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.
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
And why? will you go astray O son my with a strange [woman] may you embrace? [the] bosom of a foreign [woman].
21 For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
For before - [the] eyes of Yahweh [the] ways of a person and all tracks his [he is] making level.
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Iniquities his they will seize him the wicked [person] and by [the] cords of sin his he will be held.
23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
He he will die for not discipline and in [the] greatness of foolishness his he will go astray.
