Proverbs 5 — FBV
5Verse 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen carefully as I explain what makes sense,Verse 2so you can make good decisions and protect knowledge with your lips.+Verse 3For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,Verse 4but in the end what you get from her is the bitterness of wormwood and the sharp pain of being cut with a two-edged sword.Verse 5She leads you down to death; she takes you down to the grave.Verse 6She doesn't follow the path that leads to life—she wanders away and doesn't even know she's lost.Verse 7Now, my son,+listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.Verse 8Stay far away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!Verse 9Otherwise you'll surrender your honor to others, and your character to cruel people.Verse 10Strangers will spend your wealth; everything you've worked for will go to someone else.Verse 11When you come to the end of your life you'll moan in pain as disease destroys your body.Verse 12You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!Verse 13I didn't listen to what my teacher said. I didn't pay attention to my instructors.Verse 14Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”Verse 15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.+Verse 16Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?Verse 17Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.Verse 18May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.Verse 19May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.Verse 20Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?Verse 21For the Lord sees everything people do, the Lord investigates everywhere they go.Verse 22The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.Verse 23They will die because they lack self-control, lost because of their great stupidity.