Proverbs 5:1-14 New American Standard Bible
Pitfalls of Immorality
5 My son, (A)pay attention to my wisdom,
(B)Incline your ear to my understanding,
2 So that you may (C)maintain discretion
And your (D)lips may comply with knowledge.
3 For the lips of an [a](E)adulteress (F)drip honey,
And her [b]speech is (G)smoother than oil;
4 But in the end she 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 [c]She does not ponder the (K)path of life;
Her ways are (L)unstable, she (M)does not know it.
7 (N)Now then, 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 Otherwise you will give your vigor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;
10 And strangers will be filled with your strength,
And your hard-earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;
11 And you will groan [d]in [e]the end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;
12 And you say, “How I (R)hated instruction!
And my heart (S)disdainfully rejected rebuke!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my (T)teachers,
Nor incline my ear to my instructors!
14 I was almost in total ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:3 Lit strange woman
- Proverbs 5:3 Lit palate
- Proverbs 5:6 Lit That she not watch
- Proverbs 5:11 Or at
- Proverbs 5:11 Lit your end
Cross references
- Proverbs 5:1 : Prov 4:20
- Proverbs 5:1 : Prov 22:17
- Proverbs 5:2 : Prov 3:21
- Proverbs 5:2 : Mal 2:7
- Proverbs 5:3 : Prov 2:16; 5:20; 7:5; 22:14
- Proverbs 5:3 : Song 4:11
- Proverbs 5:3 : Ps 55:21
- Proverbs 5:4 : Eccl 7:26
- Proverbs 5:4 : Ps 57:4; Heb 4:12
- Proverbs 5:5 : Prov 7:27
- Proverbs 5:6 : Prov 4:26; 5:21
- Proverbs 5:6 : 2 Pet 2:14
- Proverbs 5:6 : Prov 30:20
- Proverbs 5:7 : Prov 7:24
- Proverbs 5:7 : Ps 119:102
- Proverbs 5:8 : Prov 7:25
- Proverbs 5:8 : Prov 9:14
- Proverbs 5:12 : Prov 1:7, 22, 29
- Proverbs 5:12 : Prov 1:25; 12:1
- Proverbs 5:13 : Prov 1:8
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