Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet, are going down to death, - on hades, will her steps take firm hold.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not whither .
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man, - and, all his tracks, doth he consider:
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.