nsb - Proverbs:5

nsb@Proverbs:5:1 @ My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Listen to my understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:5:2 @ That way you will maintain discretion and your lips will keep knowledge.

nsb@Proverbs:5:3 @ The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil.

nsb@Proverbs:5:4 @ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword.

nsb@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave.

nsb@Proverbs:5:6 @ She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know.

nsb@Proverbs:5:7 @ Hear me now my son. Do not depart from the words of my mouth.

nsb@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.

nsb@Proverbs:5:9 @ You will give your honor to others and your years to the cruel one.

nsb@Proverbs:5:10 @ Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work.

nsb@Proverbs:5:11 @ You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed.

nsb@Proverbs:5:12 @ You say: »How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.

nsb@Proverbs:5:13 @ »I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors!

nsb@Proverbs:5:14 @ »I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.«

nsb@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well.

nsb@Proverbs:5:16 @ Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places?

nsb@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be yours alone. Do not share with strangers.

nsb@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.

nsb@Proverbs:5:19 @ She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.

nsb@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

nsb@Proverbs:5:21 @ The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths.

nsb@Proverbs:5:22 @ His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.

nsb@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.