CPDV - Proverbs - 5

5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,

5:2  so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.

5:3  For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.

5:4  But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

5:5  Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.

5:6  They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.

5:7  Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.

5:8  Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.

5:9  Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.

5:10  Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,

5:11  and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:

5:12  “Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?

5:13  And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?

5:14  I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”

5:15  Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.

5:16  Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.

5:17  Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.

5:18  Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:

5:19  a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.

5:20  Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?

5:21  The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.

5:22  His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.

5:23  He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.