Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
[in order] to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it].
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless,
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
lest strangers take [their] fill of your strength, and your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner,
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation."
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink water from your [own] cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Shall your springs be scattered outward? In the streets, [shall there be] streams of water?
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
May they be yours alone, and not for strangers [who are] with you.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He shall die {for lack of} discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.