LITV - Proverbs - 5

5:1  My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ears to my understanding;

5:2  So that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.

5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is sweeter than oil,

5:4  but afterwards, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword of mouths;

5:5  her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,

5:6  lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable, you cannot know them.

5:7  Then hear me now, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

5:8  Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near to the door of her house,

5:9  lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel;

5:10  that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of an alien,

5:11  and you moan when your end comes , when your flesh and muscle are eaten away;

5:12  and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

5:13  and I have not bowed to the voice of my teachers, nor bowed my ears to those instructing me.

5:14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

5:15  Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

5:16  Should your overflowing springs be scattered outside, like rivers of waters in the streets?

5:17  Let them be only your own, and not to strangers with you;

5:18  let your fountains be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth;

5:19  she is a loving deer, a graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you every time, and always be ravished in her love.

5:20  And my son, why will you be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace a foreigner's bosom?

5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.

5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

5:23  He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his foolishness he shall go astray.