Proverbs 5 — YLT
5Verse 1My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,Verse 2To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.Verse 3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,Verse 4And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.Verse 5Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.Verse 6The path of life — lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths — thou knowest not.Verse 7And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.Verse 8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,Verse 9Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,Verse 10Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,Verse 11And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,Verse 12And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,Verse 13And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.Verse 14As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.Verse 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.Verse 16Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.Verse 17Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.Verse 18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,Verse 19A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.Verse 20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?Verse 21For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.Verse 22His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.Verse 23He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!