Thematic Bible

Proverbs 5:1

My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding;

Proverbs 5:2

in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 5:4

but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5

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

Proverbs 5:6

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

Proverbs 5:7

And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

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

Proverbs 5:9

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

Proverbs 5:11

and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,

Proverbs 5:12

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

Proverbs 5:13

and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me!

Proverbs 5:14

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

Proverbs 5:15

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

Proverbs 5:16

Should your overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 5:19

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

Proverbs 5:20

And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He watches all his paths.

Proverbs 5:22

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

Proverbs 5:23

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.