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Proverbs 5 (New International Version)

Proverbs 5

Warning Against Adultery
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom,

listen well to my words of insight,

2 that you may
maintain discretion
and your lips may
preserve knowledge.

3 For the lips of
an adulteress drip honey,
and her
speech is smoother than oil;

4 but in the end
she is bitter as gall,
sharp as a
double-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down
to death;
her steps lead straight to
the grave.

6 She gives no
thought to the way of life;
her paths
are crooked, but she knows it not.

7 Now then, my
sons, listen to me;
do not turn aside
from what I say.

8 Keep to a path
far from her,
do not go near the door
of her house,

9 lest you give
your best strength to others
and your
years to one who is cruel,

10 lest strangers
feast on your wealth
and your toil
enrich another man's house.

11 At the end of
your life you will groan,
when your
flesh and body are spent.

12 You will say,
"How I hated discipline!
How my heart
spurned correction!

13 I would not
obey my teachers
or listen to my
instructors.

14 I have come to
the brink of utter ruin
in the midst of
the whole assembly."

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

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

17 Let them be
yours alone,
never to be shared with
strangers.

18 May your
fountain be blessed,
and may you
rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a
graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy
you always,
may you ever be captivated
by her love.

20 Why be
captivated, my son, by an adulteress?

Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?

21 For a man's
ways are in full view of the LORD,
and
he examines all his paths.

22 The evil deeds
of a wicked man ensnare him;
the cords
of his sin hold him fast.

23 He will die for
lack of discipline,
led astray by his
own great folly.

Footnotes:

Proverbs
5:5 Hebrew Sheol

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