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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/4.htm" title="Proverbs 4">◄</a> Proverbs 5 <a href="../proverbs/6.htm" title="Proverbs 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch24005" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn24005" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">Warning Against Adultery<a id="rfn24005001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24005001-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24005001" class="ver">1</span>My son, to my wisdom be attentive,</p> <p class="sl1">to understanding incline your ear,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005002" class="ver">2</span>That you may act discreetly,</p> <p class="sl1">and your lips guard what you know.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005003" class="ver">3</span>Indeed, the lips of the stranger drip honey,<a id="rfn24005003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24005003-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and her mouth is smoother than oil;<a id="ren24005003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24005003-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005004" class="ver">4</span>But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,</p> <p class="sl1">as sharp as a two-edged sword.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005005" class="ver">5</span>Her feet go down to death,</p> <p class="sl1">her steps reach Sheol;<a id="ren24005005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24005005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005006" class="ver">6</span>Her paths ramble, you know not where,</p> <p class="sl1">lest you see before you the road to life.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005007" class="ver">7</span>So now, children, listen to me,</p> <p class="sl1">do not stray from the words of my mouth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005008" class="ver">8</span>Keep your way far from her,<a id="ren24005008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24005008-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">do not go near the door of her house,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005009" class="ver">9</span>Lest you give your honor<a id="rfn24005009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24005009-1">*</a> to others,<a id="ren24005009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24005009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">and your years to a merciless one;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005010" class="ver">10</span>Lest outsiders take their fill of your wealth,</p> <p class="sl1">and your hard-won earnings go to another’s house;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005011" class="ver">11</span>And you groan in the end,</p> <p class="sl1">when your flesh and your body are consumed;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005012" class="ver">12</span>And you say, “Oh, why did I hate instruction,</p> <p class="sl1">and my heart spurn reproof!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005013" class="ver">13</span>Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers,</p> <p class="sl1">incline my ear to my instructors!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005014" class="ver">14</span>I am all but ruined,</p> <p class="sl1">in the midst of the public assembly!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005015" class="ver">15</span>Drink water<a id="rfn24005015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24005015-1">*</a> from your own cistern,</p> <p class="sl1">running water from your own well.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005016" class="ver">16</span>Should your water sources be dispersed abroad,</p> <p class="sl1">streams of water in the streets?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005017" class="ver">17</span>Let them be yours alone,</p> <p class="sl1">not shared with outsiders;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005018" class="ver">18</span>Let your fountain be blessed and have joy of the wife of your youth,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v24005019" class="ver">19</span>your lovely hind, your graceful doe.<a id="rfn24005019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24005019-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Of whose love you will ever have your fill,</p> <p class="sl1">and by her ardor always be intoxicated.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005020" class="ver">20</span>Why then, my son, should you be intoxicated with a stranger,</p> <p class="sl1">and embrace another woman?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005021" class="ver">21</span>Indeed, the ways of each person are plain to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight;</p> <p class="sl1">all their paths he surveys;<a id="ren24005021-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24005021-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005022" class="ver">22</span>By their own iniquities the wicked will be caught,</p> <p class="sl1">in the meshes of their own sin they will be held fast;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24005023" class="ver">23</span>They will die from lack of discipline,</p> <p class="sl1">lost because of their great folly.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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