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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 5:1 |
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: |
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, |
| 5:2 |
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. |
| 5:3 |
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth, |
| 5:4 |
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. |
And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths. |
| 5:5 |
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. |
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. |
| 5:6 |
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not. |
| 5:7 |
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. |
| 5:8 |
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, |
| 5:9 |
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, |
| 5:10 |
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, |
| 5:11 |
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, |
| 5:12 |
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, |
| 5:13 |
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. |
| 5:14 |
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company. |
| 5:15 |
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. |
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. |
| 5:16 |
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. |
| 5:17 |
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. |
| 5:18 |
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, |
| 5:19 |
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. |
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. |
| 5:20 |
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? |
| 5:21 |
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. |
For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. |
| 5:22 |
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. |
| 5:23 |
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself! |
