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Proverbs 5  Legacy Standard Bible

Warning Against Adultery

5 My son, (A)pay attention to my wisdom,
(B)Incline your ear to my discernment;
2 That you may (C)keep discretion
And that your (D)lips may guard knowledge.
3 For the lips of a (E)strange woman (F)drip honey
And (G)smoother than oil is her [a]speech;
4 But her end is (H)bitter as wormwood,
(I)Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet (J)go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol,
6 Lest she watch the (K)path of life;
Her tracks are (L)unstable, she (M)does not know it.

7 (N)So now, my sons, listen to me
And (O)do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
8 (P)Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the (Q)door of her house,
9 Lest you give your splendor to others
And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest strangers be satisfied by your strength
And by your painful labor, those in the house of a foreigner;
11 And you groan at your [b]end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;
12 And you say, “How I have (R)hated discipline!
And my heart (S)spurned reproof!
13 I have not listened to the voice of my (T)instructors,
And I have not inclined my ear to my teachers!
14 I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern
And [c]fresh water from your own well.
16 Should your (U)springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for you alone,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your (V)fountain be blessed,
And (W)be glad in the (X)wife of your youth.
19 As a loving (Y)hind and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
Be [d]intoxicated always with her love.
20 So why should you, my son, be intoxicated with a (Z)strange woman
And embrace the bosom of a (AA)foreign woman?
21 For the (AB)ways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh,
And He (AC)watches all his tracks.
22 His (AD)own iniquities will capture him who is the wicked one,
And with the cords of his sin he will be held fast.
23 He will (AE)die for lack of discipline,
And in the abundance of his [e]folly he will [f]stumble in intoxication.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Lit palate
  2. Proverbs 5:11 Or latter
  3. Proverbs 5:15 Lit flowing
  4. Proverbs 5:19 Or exhilarated
  5. Proverbs 5:23 A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant fool
  6. Proverbs 5:23 Or go astray

Cross references

  1. Proverbs 5:1 : Prov 4:20
  2. Proverbs 5:1 : Prov 22:17
  3. Proverbs 5:2 : Prov 3:21
  4. Proverbs 5:2 : Mal 2:7
  5. Proverbs 5:3 : Prov 2:16; 5:20; 7:5; 22:14
  6. Proverbs 5:3 : Song 4:11
  7. Proverbs 5:3 : Ps 55:21
  8. Proverbs 5:4 : Eccl 7:26
  9. Proverbs 5:4 : Ps 57:4; Heb 4:12
  10. Proverbs 5:5 : Prov 7:27
  11. Proverbs 5:6 : Prov 4:26; 5:21
  12. Proverbs 5:6 : 2 Pet 2:14
  13. Proverbs 5:6 : Prov 30:20
  14. Proverbs 5:7 : Prov 7:24
  15. Proverbs 5:7 : Ps 119:102
  16. Proverbs 5:8 : Prov 7:25
  17. Proverbs 5:8 : Prov 9:14
  18. Proverbs 5:12 : Prov 1:7, 22, 29
  19. Proverbs 5:12 : Prov 1:25; 12:1
  20. Proverbs 5:13 : Prov 1:8
  21. Proverbs 5:16 : Prov 5:18; 9:17; Song 4:12, 15
  22. Proverbs 5:18 : Prov 9:17; Song 4:12, 15
  23. Proverbs 5:18 : Eccl 9:9
  24. Proverbs 5:18 : Mal 2:14
  25. Proverbs 5:19 : Song 2:9, 17; 4:5; 7:3
  26. Proverbs 5:20 : Prov 5:3
  27. Proverbs 5:20 : Prov 2:16; 6:24; 7:5; 23:27
  28. Proverbs 5:21 : Job 14:16; 31:4; 34:21; Ps 119:168; Prov 15:3; Jer 16:17; 32:19; Hos 7:2; Heb 4:13
  29. Proverbs 5:21 : Prov 4:26
  30. Proverbs 5:22 : Num 32:23; Ps 7:15; 9:15; 40:12; Prov 1:31, 32
  31. Proverbs 5:23 : Job 4:21; 36:12
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