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Proverbs 5

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.

15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

19 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.

20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Good News Translation GNT

1 My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight.

2 Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.

3 The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,

4 but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.

5 She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.

6 She does not stay on the road to life; but wanders off, and does not realize what is happening.

7 Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.

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 -

19 pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.

20 Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?

21 The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.

22 The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

23 They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.