Proverbs 5:8-18

8 Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!
9 If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.
10 Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
11 You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,
12 and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?
13 I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.
14 And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced."
15 Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.
16 Children that you have by other women will do you no good.
17 Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
18 So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married -

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. And suddenly . . . myself; [or] I was about to be.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.