Proverbs 5
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Proverbs 5
Warning against Impurity and Infidelity
1 #
Prov 4.20; 22.17 My child, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
2so that you may hold on to prudence,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
3 #
Ps 55.21; Prov 2.16 For the lips of a loose woman#5.3 Heb strange woman drip honey,
and her speech is smoother than oil,
4 #
Ps 57.4; Eccl 7.26 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps follow the path to Sheol.
6She does not keep straight to the path of life;
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
7 #
Ps 119.102; Prov 7.24 And now, my child,#5.7 Gk Vg: Heb children listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 #
Prov 7.25; 9.14 Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
9lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
10and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of an alien,
11and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 #
Prov 1.29; 12.1 and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
14Now I am at the point of utter ruin
in the public assembly.”
15Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
16 #
Prov 9.17
Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
17Let them be for yourself alone
and not for sharing with strangers.
18 #
Eccl 9.9; Mal 2.14 Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 #
Song 2.9; 4.5; 7.3 a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
May her breasts satisfy you at all times;
may you be intoxicated always by her love.
20 #
Prov 2.16; 7.5 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?#5.20 Heb alien woman
21 #
Job 31.4; 34.21; Prov 15.3; Jer 16.17; 32.19; Hos 7.2; Heb 4.13 For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord,
and he examines all their paths.
22 #
Ps 9.15
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
and they are caught in the coils of their sin.
23 #
Job 4.21; 36.12 They die for lack of discipline,
and because of their great folly they are lost.
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