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Proverbs 5

Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding

2 so that [you] may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge.

3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil,

4 in the end she's as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol.

6 She doesn't consider the path of life; she doesn't know that her ways are unstable.

7 So now, [my] sons, listen to me, and don't turn away from the words of my mouth.

8 Keep your way far from her. Don't go near the door of her house.

9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel;

10 strangers will drain your resources, and your earnings will end up in a foreigner's house.

11 At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed,

12 and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

13 I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors.

14 I was on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community."

15 Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.

16 Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

17 They should be for you alone and not for you [to share] with strangers.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn- let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.

20 Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger?

21 For a man's ways are before the Lord's eyes, and He considers all his paths.

22 A wicked man's iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

23 He will die because there is no instruction, and be lost because of his great stupidity.

English Standard Version ESV

1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech 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 follow the path to Sheol;

6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

7 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

8 Keep 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 merciless,

10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation. ”

15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.