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Proverbs 5
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Proverbs 5 . 1
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,TOSKProverbs 5:1
Proverbs 5 . 2
2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.TOSKProverbs 5:2
Proverbs 5 . 3
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,TOSKProverbs 5:3
Proverbs 5 . 4
4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.TOSKProverbs 5:4
Proverbs 5 . 5
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.TOSKProverbs 5:5
Proverbs 5 . 6
6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.TOSKProverbs 5:6
Proverbs 5 . 7
7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.TOSKProverbs 5:7
Proverbs 5 . 8
8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,TOSKProverbs 5:8
Proverbs 5 . 9
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;TOSKProverbs 5:9
Proverbs 5 . 10
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.TOSKProverbs 5:10
Proverbs 5 . 11
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,TOSKProverbs 5:11
Proverbs 5 . 12
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!TOSKProverbs 5:12
Proverbs 5 . 13
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.TOSKProverbs 5:13
Proverbs 5 . 14
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”TOSKProverbs 5:14
Proverbs 5 . 15
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.TOSKProverbs 5:15
Proverbs 5 . 16
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?TOSKProverbs 5:16
Proverbs 5 . 17
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Proverbs 5 . 18
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:TOSKProverbs 5:18
Proverbs 5 . 19
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.TOSKProverbs 5:19
Proverbs 5 . 20
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?TOSKProverbs 5:20
Proverbs 5 . 21
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.TOSKProverbs 5:21
Proverbs 5 . 22
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.TOSKProverbs 5:22
Proverbs 5 . 23
23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.TOSKProverbs 5:23