Proverbs Chapter 5

• Proverbs 5:1
  Proverbs.
• Proverbs 5:2
  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
• Proverbs 5:3
  that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
• Proverbs 5:4
  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
• Proverbs 5:5
  but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
• Proverbs 5:6
  Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
• Proverbs 5:7
  She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
• Proverbs 5:8
  Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
• Proverbs 5:9
  Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
• Proverbs 5:10
  lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
• Proverbs 5:11
  lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
• Proverbs 5:12
  You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
• Proverbs 5:13
  and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
• Proverbs 5:14
  I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
• Proverbs 5:15
  I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
• Proverbs 5:16
  Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
• Proverbs 5:17
  Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
• Proverbs 5:18
  Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
• Proverbs 5:19
  Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
• Proverbs 5:20
  A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
• Proverbs 5:21
  For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
• Proverbs 5:22
  For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
• Proverbs 5:23
  The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
• Proverbs 5:24
  He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.