Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
New International Version NIV
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, <em>and</em> bow thine ear to my intelligence;
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My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,
2 that thou may keep council and <em>that</em> thy lips may conserve knowledge.
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that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of the strange <em>woman</em> drop <em>as</em> a honeycomb, and her mouth <em>is</em> smoother than oil,
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For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death, her steps uphold Sheol,
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Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
6 lest thou should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable; thou shalt not know them.
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She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
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Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel,
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lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours <em>be</em> in the house of a stranger,
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lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
11 and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed
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At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
12 and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof
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You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
13 and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me, nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me!
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I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.
14 I have been in almost every <em>kind of</em> evil, in the midst of society and of the congregation.
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And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.
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Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, <em>and</em> rivers of <em>thy</em> waters in the streets.
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Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 <em>Let her be as</em> the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love, <em>without eyes for anyone else</em>.
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A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a woman belonging to someone else, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
21 For the ways of man <em>are</em> before the eyes of the LORD, and he weighs all his goings.
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For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.
22 His <em>own</em> iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.
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The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
23 He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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