5:1 [My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply
thine ear to my words;
5:2 that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips
gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
5:3 for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy
palate:
5:4 but afterwards thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, and sharper
than a two-edged sword.
5:5 For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave
with death; and her steps are not established.
5:6 For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and
not easily known.
5:7 Now then, [my] son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
5:8 Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
5:9 lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the
merciless:
5:10 lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into
the houses of strangers;
5:11 And thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed,
5:12 and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided
reproofs!
5:13 I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither
did I apply mine ear.
5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
5:15 Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing
wells.
5:16 Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters
go into thy streets.
5:17 Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.
5:18 Let thy fountain of water be [truly] thine own; and rejoice with the
wife of thy youth.
5:19 Let [thy] loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let
her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished
with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
5:20 Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms
of a woman not thine own.
5:21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all
his paths.
5:22 Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his
own sins.
5:23 Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the
abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly. |
5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow
thine ear to my understanding:
5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep
knowledge.
5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is
smoother than oil:
5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that
thou canst not know them.
5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of
my mouth.
5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the
house of a stranger;
5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to
them that instructed me!
5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine
own well.
5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the
streets.
5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
5:19 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.
5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and
embrace the bosom of a stranger?
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth
all his goings.
5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be
holden with the cords of his sins.
5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he
shall go astray. |