Thematic Bible
Proverbs 5:1 (show verse)
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
Proverbs 5:2 (show verse)
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
Proverbs 5:3 (show verse)
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
Proverbs 5:4 (show verse)
And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
Proverbs 5:5 (show verse)
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
Proverbs 5:6 (show verse)
The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.
Proverbs 5:7 (show verse)
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8 (show verse)
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
Proverbs 5:9 (show verse)
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
Proverbs 5:10 (show verse)
Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
Proverbs 5:11 (show verse)
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
Proverbs 5:12 (show verse)
And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Proverbs 5:13 (show verse)
And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
Proverbs 5:14 (show verse)
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
Proverbs 5:15 (show verse)
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16 (show verse)
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
Proverbs 5:17 (show verse)
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18 (show verse)
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
Proverbs 5:19 (show verse)
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
Proverbs 5:20 (show verse)
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Proverbs 5:21 (show verse)
For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
Proverbs 5:22 (show verse)
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Proverbs 5:23 (show verse)
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!