Proverbs 5 – New International Version (NIV)
Warning Against Adultery
- My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,
- that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
- For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
- but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
- She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.
- Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say.
- Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
- lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,
- lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
- At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
- You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
- I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.
- And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
- Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
- Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
- Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
- May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
- A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
- Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
- For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths.
- The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
- For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
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Proverbs 5 – King James Version (KJV)
- My son, attend unto my wisdom, And bow thine ear to my understanding:
- That thou mayest regard discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
- But her end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a twoedged sword.
- Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on hell.
- Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Hear me now therefore, O ye children, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
- Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house:
- Lest thou give thine honour unto others, And thy years unto the cruel:
- Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; And thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
- And thou mourn at the last, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
- And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- I was almost in all evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
- Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, And rivers of waters in the streets.
- Let them be only thine own, And not strangers’ with thee.
- Let thy fountain be blessed: And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
- Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
- And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And he pondereth all his goings.
- His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- He shall die without instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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