1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Proverbs 5
1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom. 3 He sheweth the mischief of whoredom and riot. 15 He exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and charity. 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.
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5:1 ¶
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
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5:2
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
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5:3 ¶
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
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5:4
And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
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5:5
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
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5:6
The path of lifelest thou ponder, Moved have her pathsthou knowest not.
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5:7
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
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5:8
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
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5:9
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
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5:10
Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
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5:11
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
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5:12
And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
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5:13
And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
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5:14
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
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5:15 ¶
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
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5:16
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
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5:17
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
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5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
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5:19
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
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5:20
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
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5:21
For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
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5:22 ¶
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
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5:23
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!