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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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Beni (my son), attend unto my chochmah, and bow thine ozen to my tevunah (understanding);

2 That thou mayest regard mezimah (discretion), and that thy sfatayim (lips) may keep da’as (knowledge).

3 For the sfatayim (lips) of a zarah (strange woman) drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than shemen (olive oil);

4 But her end is marah (bitter) as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged cherev.

5 Her raglayim go down to mavet; her steps lead to Sheol.

6 Lest thou shouldest compare [hers] to the orach chayyim, her ma’agalot (paths) are crooked, that thou canst not know them.

7 Hear me now therefore, O ye banim, and turn not from the words of my peh (mouth).

8 Remove thy derech far from her, and come not near the petach (doorway) of her bais;

9 Lest thou give thine hod (strength) unto others, and thy shanim unto the cruel one;

10 Lest zarim (strangers) be filled with thy koach; and thy toilings be in the bais nochri;

11 And thou mourn at the acharit (last, latter end, future), when thy basar and thy body are consumed,

12 And say, How have I hated musar, and my lev spurned tokhakhat (reproof);

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my morim (teachers), nor inclined mine ear to the ones who were my melamed!

14 I was at the brink of all rah (evil, ruin) in the midst of the kahal (congregation) and edah (assembly).

15 Drink mayim out of thine own bor (cistern), and running waters out of thine own well.

16 Should thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and channels of mayim in the rekhovot (town squares)?

17 Let them be only thine own, and never zarim (strangers) with thee.

18 Let thy makor (fountain) be blessed; and rejoice with the isha of thy youth.

19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou enraptured tamid (ever) with ahavat (love of) her.

20 And why wilt thou, beni (my son), be intoxicated with a zarah (strange woman), and embrace the kheyk (bosom) of a nochriyah (foreign [heathen] woman)?

21 For the drakhim ish are before the eyes of Hashem, and He pondereth all his ma’agalot (paths).

22 His own avonot shall entrap the rashah himself, and he shall be held fast by the cords of his chattat.

23 He shall die without musar; and in the greatness of his folly he shall be led astray.