The Book of Proverbs 5 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Proverbs 5:1 | My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, |
Proverbs 5:2 | To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. |
Proverbs 5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth, |
Proverbs 5:4 | And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths. |
Proverbs 5:5 | Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. |
Proverbs 5:6 | The path of life lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths thou knowest not. |
Proverbs 5:7 | And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. |
Proverbs 5:8 | Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, |
Proverbs 5:9 | Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, |
Proverbs 5:10 | Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, |
Proverbs 5:11 | And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, |
Proverbs 5:12 | And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, |
Proverbs 5:13 | And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. |
Proverbs 5:14 | 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, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. |
Proverbs 5:16 | Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. |
Proverbs 5:17 | Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. |
Proverbs 5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, |
Proverbs 5:19 | 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 dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? |
Proverbs 5:21 | 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 do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. |
Proverbs 5:23 | He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself! |