Thematic Bible

Proverbs 5:1

My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:

Proverbs 5:2

That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

Proverbs 5:3

For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;

Proverbs 5:4

But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet, are going down to death, - on hades, will her steps take firm hold.

Proverbs 5:6

Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not whither .

Proverbs 5:7

Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:

Proverbs 5:9

Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:

Proverbs 5:10

Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.

Proverbs 5:11

So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;

Proverbs 5:12

And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

Proverbs 5:13

Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:

Proverbs 5:14

Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.

Proverbs 5:15

Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.

Proverbs 5:16

Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -

Proverbs 5:19

A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.

Proverbs 5:20

Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?

Proverbs 5:21

For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man, - and, all his tracks, doth he consider:

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

Proverbs 5:23

He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.