Parallel Bible results for "Proverbs 5:14-23"

Proverbs 5:14-23

14 "I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

14 And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.

15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you.

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD , And He watches all his paths.

21 For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.

22 His own iniquities will capture the wicked, And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.

23 He will die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.

23 For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.