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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.

New King James Version NKJV

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

2 That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.

3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;

4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of hell.

6 Lest you ponder her path of life-- Her ways are unstable; You do not know them.

7 Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,

9 Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;

10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

11 And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

12 And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

14 I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

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

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

17 Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.

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

19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He ponders all his paths.

22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

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