Proverbs 5
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
2That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
5Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
6They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
7Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
11And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
13And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
14I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
16Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
17Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
19Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.
20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
20Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
23He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
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