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Turn your ear to my understanding, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.” </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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