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    Proverbs 5

    1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight,ISV — Proverbs 5:1

    2 so you may carefully practice a5:2 Lit. guard discretion and your lips preserve knowledge.ISV — Proverbs 5:2

    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech b5:3 Lit. palate is smoother than oil.ISV — Proverbs 5:3

    4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, c5:4 Wormwood is a plant with an extremely bitter taste. and as sharp as a double-edged sword.ISV — Proverbs 5:4

    5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol. d5:5 i.e. the realm of the deadISV — Proverbs 5:5

    6 You aren’t thinking about e5:6 Or She does not consider where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize f5:6 Or she does not realize it.ISV — Proverbs 5:6

    7 Now, children, g5:7 Or sons listen to me. Don’t turn away from what I am saying. h5:7 Lit. from the words of my mouthISV — Proverbs 5:7

    8 Keep i5:8 Lit. Keep your path far away from her, and don’t go near the entrance to her house,ISV — Proverbs 5:8

    9 so that you don’t give your honor to others, and waste your best years; j5:9 Lit. and your years to the cruelISV — Proverbs 5:9

    10 so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense, k5:10 Lit. don’t satisfy themselves with your strength and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners. l5:10 Lit. won’t go into a foreigner’s houseISV — Proverbs 5:10

    11 You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed,ISV — Proverbs 5:11

    12 and you will say, “How I hated instruction, m5:12 Or discipline and my heart rejected correction!ISV — Proverbs 5:12

    13 I did not obey my teachers and did not listen n5:13 Lit. incline my ear to my instructors.ISV — Proverbs 5:13

    14 Now I am at the point of utter disaster in o5:14 Lit. in the midst of the assembly and in the congregation.”ISV — Proverbs 5:14

    15 Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh p5:15 Lit. flowing water from your own well.ISV — Proverbs 5:15

    16 Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?ISV — Proverbs 5:16

    17 They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.ISV — Proverbs 5:17

    18 Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.ISV — Proverbs 5:18

    19 Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.ISV — Proverbs 5:19

    20 Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?ISV — Proverbs 5:20

    21 Indeed, what a man does is q5:21 Lit. Indeed, a man’s ways are always in the LORD’s presence, r5:21 Lit. in front of the LORD’s eyes and he weighs all his paths.ISV — Proverbs 5:21

    22 The wicked person’s iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.ISV — Proverbs 5:22

    23 He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.ISV — Proverbs 5:23

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