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Proverbs 5

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding;

2 so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.

3 For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil;

4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;

6 she doesn't walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over, but she doesn't know it.

7 So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

8 distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;

9 so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

10 so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

11 Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,

12 "How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,

13 I ignored what my teachers said, I didn't listen to my instructors.

14 I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it."

15 Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.

16 Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;

17 but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her

19 a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.

20 My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?

21 For ADONAI is watching a man's ways; he surveys all his paths.

22 A wicked person's own crimes will trap him, he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin.

23 He will die from lack of discipline; the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.

The Message Bible MSG

1 Dear friend, pay close attention to this, my wisdom; listen very closely to the way I see it.

2 Then you'll acquire a taste for good sense; what I tell you will keep you out of trouble.

3 The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet, her soft words are oh so smooth.

4 But it won't be long before she's gravel in your mouth, a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart.

5 She's dancing down the primrose path to Death; she's headed straight for Hell and taking you with her.

6 She hasn't a clue about Real Life, about who she is or where she's going.

7 So, my friend, listen closely; don't treat my words casually.

8 Keep your distance from such a woman; absolutely stay out of her neighborhood.

9 You don't want to squander your wonderful life, to waste your precious life among the hardhearted.

10 Why should you allow strangers to take advantage of you? Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you?

11 You don't want to end your life full of regrets, nothing but sin and bones,

12 Saying, "Oh, why didn't I do what they told me? Why did I reject a disciplined life?

13 Why didn't I listen to my mentors, or take my teachers seriously?

14 My life is ruined! I haven't one blessed thing to show for my life!" Never Take Love for Granted

15 Do you know the saying, "Drink from your own rain barrel, draw water from your own spring-fed well"?

16 It's true. Otherwise, you may one day come home and find your barrel empty and your well polluted.

17 Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers.

18 Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man!

19 Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose - don't ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted!

20 Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?

21 Mark well that God doesn't miss a move you make; he's aware of every step you take.

22 The shadow of your sin will overtake you; you'll find yourself stumbling all over yourself in the dark.

23 Death is the reward of an undisciplined life; your foolish decisions trap you in a dead end.