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