Proverbs 5 NKJV

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class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>preserve discretion,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-2">And your lips may keep knowledge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the lips of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>an immoral woman drip honey,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-3">And her mouth <i>is</i> smoother than oil;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-4">Sharp as a two-edged sword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Her feet go down to death,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-5">Her steps lay hold of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>hell.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Lest you ponder <i>her</i> path of life—</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-6">Her ways are unstable;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-6">You do not know <i>them.</i></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore hear me now, <i>my</i> children,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-7">And do not depart from the words of my mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Remove your way far from her,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-8">And do not go near the door of her house,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Lest you give your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>honor to others,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-9">And your years to the cruel <i>one;</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Lest aliens be filled with your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>wealth,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-10">And your labors <i>go</i> to the house of a foreigner;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you mourn at last,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-11">When your flesh and your body are consumed,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And say:</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-12">“How I have hated instruction,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-12">And my heart despised correction!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-13">Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I was on the verge of total ruin,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-14">In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Drink water from your own cistern,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-15">And running water from your own well.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-16"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>Streams of water in the streets?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be only your own,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-17">And not for strangers with you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let your fountain be blessed,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-18">And rejoice with the wife of your youth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><i>As a</i> loving deer and a graceful doe,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-19">Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-19">And always be <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>enraptured with her love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-20">And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the ways of man <i>are</i> before the eyes of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-21">And He <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>ponders all his paths.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>His own iniquities entrap the wicked <i>man,</i></span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-22">And he is caught in the cords of his sin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He shall die for lack of instruction,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-5-23">And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-16519a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:1">Proverbs 5:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Bow</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16520b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:2">Proverbs 5:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>appreciate good judgment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16521c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:3">Proverbs 5:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>a strange</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16523d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:5">Proverbs 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sheol</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16527e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:9">Proverbs 5:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>vigor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16528f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:10">Proverbs 5:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>strength</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16534g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:16">Proverbs 5:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Channels</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16537h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:19">Proverbs 5:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>intoxicated</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16539i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Proverbs 5:21">Proverbs 5:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>observes,</i> lit. <i>weighs</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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