Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
My son ,
pay
attention
to my wisdom ;
incline your
ear to
my
insight
,
My son !
to my wisdom give
attention,
To
mine
understanding
incline thine
ear,
that
you
may
maintain
discretion
and your
lips
may
preserve
knowledge.
To
observe
thoughtfulness,
And knowledge do
thy
lips
keep
.
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 smoother than oil `is'
her
mouth
,
in
the
end she
is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged
sword.
And
her
latter
end `
is '
bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with'
mouths
.
Her feet go
down to death ;
her steps lead
straight
to
Sheol
.
Her feet are
going
down to death ,
Sheol
do
her steps take
hold
of
.
She
does
not
consider
the path of life ;
she
does
not
know
that
her ways
are
unstable
.
The path of life --
lest
thou
ponder,
Moved
have
her paths
--
thou
knowest
not
.
So
now, my
sons, listen
to me, and do
not
turn aside
from the
words
of my mouth.
And
now, ye
sons, hearken
to me, And turn not
from sayings
of my mouth.
Keep your
path
far from her ;
do
not go
near the door
of her house,
Keep far from off
her thy
way,
And
come
not near unto
the opening
of her house,
lest you
concede
your
vigor
to others, and your
years to one
who
is
cruel;
Lest thou
give
to others thy
honour
, And thy
years to the
fierce,
lest strangers feast
on
your
wealth
, and your
labors
enrich
the house of a foreigner.
Lest strangers be
filled
`with'
thy
power
, And thy
labours
in
the house of a stranger,
At
the
end of your
life
you
will
groan
when
your
flesh and your
body
are
spent
,
And
thou
hast
howled
in
thy
latter
end ,
In
the
consumption
of thy
flesh and thy
food
,
and you
will
say
, “
How I hated discipline
, and my heart despised reproof!
And hast
said
, `
How have
I hated instruction
, And reproof
hath
my heart despised ,
I did
not listen
to the voice of my teachers
or
incline
my
ear
to my mentors
.
And
I have
not hearkened
to the voice of my directors,
And
to my teachers
have
not
inclined
mine
ear
.
I am
on
the
brink
of
utter
ruin
in the midst of the
whole
assembly. ”
As
a
little
thing
I have
been
all
evil,
In the midst of an
assembly and
a
company
.
Drink water
from
your
own cistern, and
running
water
from
your
own well.
Drink waters
out
of
thine
own cistern, Even
flowing
ones
out
of
thine
own well.
Why
should
your
springs
flow
in
the
streets
, your
streams
of
water
in the
public
squares?
Let
thy
fountains
be
scattered
abroad
, In broad
places
rivulets
of
waters.
Let them be yours
alone
, never
to be
shared
with
strangers.
Let them be to
thee
for
thyself
, And
not
to 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 because
of
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
.
A hind
of
loves
, and
a roe
of
grace!
Let
her loves
satisfy thee
at
all
times,
In
her love magnify
thyself
continually
.
Why be
captivated
, my son, by
an
adulteress,
or
embrace the bosom of a stranger
?
And
why dost
thou
magnify
thyself
, My son, with
a
stranger?
And
embrace the bosom of a strange
woman
?
For a
man’s
ways
are
before
the eyes of the LORD
, and the
LORD
examines
all his paths.
For over-against
the eyes of Jehovah
are
the ways
of
each
, And all his paths He
is
pondering
.
The
iniquities of
a
wicked man
entrap
him;
the cords
of his sin entangle
him
.
His
own
iniquities do
capture
the
wicked ,
And
with
the ropes
of his sin he
is
holden
.
He dies
for
lack
of
discipline
, led
astray
by
his own
great
folly .
He dieth
without
instruction
, And
in
the
abundance
of
his folly magnifieth
himself!
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