Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
My son, pay
attention
to
my wisdom; incline your
ear to my insight,
My son, attend
unto
my wisdom; Incline thine
ear to my understanding:
that you
may
maintain
discretion and your
lips may preserve
knowledge.
That thou
mayest
preserve
discretion ,
And that
thy
lips may keep
knowledge.
Though
the lips of the
forbidden
woman drip
honey and her speech
is smoother than oil ,
For
the lips of a
strange
woman drop
honey ,
And her mouth
is smoother than oil :
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double
-edged sword.
But
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two
-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead
straight
to
Sheol .
Her feet go down to death; Her steps take
hold
on
Sheol ;
She does
not consider
the path of life ;
she
does
not
know
that
her ways are unstable.
So
that
she findeth
not the level
path of life :
Her ways are unstable ,
`and'
she
knoweth
`it'
not
.
So
now, my sons, listen
to
me, and do
not turn
aside
from the words of my mouth.
Now therefore
, `
my '
sons, hearken
unto
me, And depart
not from the words of my mouth.
Keep
your
path
far from her ;
do
not go
near
the door of her house ,
Remove
thy
way
far from her ,
And
come
not nigh
the door of her house ;
lest you
concede
your
vigor
to
others, and your
years to
one
who
is
cruel;
Lest thou
give
thine
honor
unto
others, And thy
years unto
the
cruel;
lest strangers feast
on
your
wealth
, and your
labors enrich
the house of a
foreigner.
Lest strangers be
filled
with
thy
strength
, And thy
labors `be'
in
the house of an
alien,
At the
end of
your
life
you
will
groan
when your
flesh and your
body are spent
,
And
thou
mourn
at thy
latter
end ,
When thy
flesh and thy
body are consumed
,
and you
will
say, “
How I hated discipline
, and my heart despised reproof !
And say, How have
I hated instruction
, And my heart despised reproof ;
I did
not
listen
to
the voice of my teachers or
incline
my
ear to my
mentors.
Neither
have
I obeyed
the voice of my teachers ,
Nor
inclined
mine
ear to them
that
instructed
me!
I am
on
the
brink
of
utter
ruin
in the midst of the whole
assembly. ”
I was
well-nigh
in all
evil
In
the midst of the assembly and
congregation
.
Drink water
from
your
own cistern, and running water
from
your
own well.
Drink waters
out
of
thine
own cistern, And running waters
out
of
thine
own well.
Why
should your
springs flow
in
the
streets
, your
streams of water in the public
squares
?
Should thy
springs be
dispersed
abroad
, And
streams of water in the streets
?
Let them be yours
alone, never
to
be
shared
with
strangers.
Let them be for
thyself
alone, And
not
for
strangers with
thee
.
May
your
fountain be blessed ,
and may
you
rejoice in the wife of your
youth :
Let
thy
fountain be blessed ;
And rejoice in the wife of thy
youth .
A loving doe, a
graceful
fawn—
may
her breasts satisfy you
always
; may
you
be captivated
by
her love forever
.
`As'
a loving hind
and
a
pleasant
doe, Let
her breasts satisfy thee
at
all
times
; And
be thou
ravished
always
with
her love.
Why be
captivated
, my son, by
an
adulteress
, or
embrace the bosom of a stranger
?
For
why shouldest
thou
, my son, be
ravished
with
a
strange
woman
, And
embrace the bosom of a foreigner
?
For a
man’s
ways are before the eyes of the
LORD,
and the
LORD
examines
all his paths.
For the
ways of
man
are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he
maketh
level
all his paths.
The
iniquities of
a
wicked man
entrap
him;
the cords of his sin entangle
him
.
His
own
iniquities shall
take
the
wicked ,
And
he
shall
be
holden
with
the cords of his sin.
He dies
for lack of discipline,
led
astray
by
his own
great
folly.
He shall
die
for lack of instruction;
And
in
the
greatness
of
his folly he
shall
go
astray
.
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