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Proverbs 5 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:1 - My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:2 - in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 - For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:4 - but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:6 - Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:9 - lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:11 - And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:13 - For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 - I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:17 - Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife -

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:19 - a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:21 - For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:22 - The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:23 - He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
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Proverbs Chapter 5 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras