Proverbs:5 Parallel Bible - KJV BAS WLD YLT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | The King James Version Online Bible (KJV) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) | The World English Online Bible (WLD) | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
| Proverbs 5:1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: | My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching: | My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: | My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, |
| Proverbs 5:2 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. | So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge. | That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge. | To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. |
| Proverbs 5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; | For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth, |
| Proverbs 5:4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; | But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword. | And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths. |
| Proverbs 5:5 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; | Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. | Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. |
| Proverbs 5:6 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. | She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it. | The path of life lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths thou knowest not. |
| Proverbs 5:7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. | Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth. | And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. |
| Proverbs 5:8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; | Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, | Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, |
| Proverbs 5:9 | Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: | Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one; | Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, |
| Proverbs 5:10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; | Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house. | Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, |
| Proverbs 5:11 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; | You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed, | And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, |
| Proverbs 5:12 | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; | And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; | And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, |
| Proverbs 5:13 | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! | Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! | And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. |
| Proverbs 5:14 | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. | I have come to the brink of utter ruin, In the midst of the gathered assembly." | As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company. |
| Proverbs 5:15 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. | Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well. | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. |
| Proverbs 5:16 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. | Should your springs overflow in the streets, Streams of water in the public squares? | Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. |
| Proverbs 5:17 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. | Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you. | Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. |
| Proverbs 5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. | Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. | Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, |
| Proverbs 5:19 | Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. | As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. | A loving hind and a pleasant doe Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. | A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. |
| Proverbs 5:20 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? | For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? | And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? |
| Proverbs 5:21 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales. | For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths. | For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. |
| Proverbs 5:22 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. | The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. | His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. |
| Proverbs 5:23 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way. | He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. | He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself! |
| | The King James Version Online Bible (KJV) | The Basic English Online Bible (BAS) | The World English Online Bible (WLD) | The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
