Proverbs 5 | English Standard Version

English Standard Version

Warning Against Adultery

1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, (; ; ) 2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. (; ) 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, (; ) 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. (; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; )

De 29:18Ps 55:21Ps 57:4Ps 149:6Ec 7:26Jer 9:15La 3:15La 3:19Re 8:11

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; () 6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. (; ) 7 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. () 8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, () 11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, () 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! (; ; ; ; )

Ps 107:11Pr 1:22Pr 1:25Pr 1:29Pr 12:1

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” () 15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. (; ; ; ; )

Pr 5:18Pr 9:17So 4:12So 4:15Jer 2:13

16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? (; ; ) 17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. () 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, (; ; ) 19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. (; ; ; )

So 2:9So 2:17So 8:14Jer 31:14

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? () 21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. (; ; ; ; ; )

Job 14:16Ps 11:4Ps 119:168Pr 5:6Ho 7:2Heb 4:13

22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. (; ) 23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. (; )