Proverbs - Chapter 5 | Good News Translation

  • 1. My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight.
  • 2. Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.
  • 3. The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,
  • 4. but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.
  • 5. She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.
  • 6. She does not stay on the road to life; but wanders off, and does not realize what is happening.
  • 7. Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.
  • 8. Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!
  • 9. If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.
  • 10. Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
  • 11. You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,
  • 12. and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?
  • 13. I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.
  • 14. And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced."
  • 15. Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.
  • 16. Children that you have by other women will do you no good.
  • 17. Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
  • 18. So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married---
  • 19. pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.
  • 20. Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?
  • 21. The LORD sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.
  • 22. The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.
  • 23. They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.
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