Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
My son ,
attend
unto
my wisdom, and
bow
thine
ear
to my
understanding :
My son !
to
my wisdom give
attention
, To mine
understanding incline
thine
ear,
That
thou
mayest
regard
discretion
, and that
thy lips may
keep knowledge
.
To
observe
thoughtfulness
, And knowledge
do
thy lips keep.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as
an
honeycomb
, and her
mouth
is
smoother than oil :
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey
, And smoother than oil `is'
her
mouth,
But
her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged
sword.
And
her latter
end `
is '
bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with'
mouths
.
Her feet go
down to death ;
her steps take hold on
hell
.
Her feet are
going
down to death ,
Sheol
do
her steps take hold of
.
Lest
thou
shouldest
ponder
the path of life, her ways
are
moveable,
that
thou canst
not know
them
.
The path of life --
lest
thou
ponder
, Moved
have
her paths
--
thou knowest
not.
Hear
me
now therefore
, O
ye children
, and depart
not from the
words
of my mouth.
And
now, ye sons
, hearken
to
me,
And turn
not from sayings
of my mouth.
Remove
thy
way
far from her, and come not nigh
the door
of her house :
Keep
far from off
her thy
way
, And come not near
unto
the opening
of her house ,
Lest thou give thine
honour
unto
others, and thy years unto
the cruel:
Lest thou give to
others thy
honour
, And thy years to
the fierce,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth;
and thy labours be
in the house of a stranger ;
Lest strangers be filled `
with '
thy power,
And thy labours in the house of a stranger ,
And thou mourn
at
the
last
, when
thy flesh and thy body
are
consumed
,
And thou hast
howled
in
thy
latter
end
, In
the
consumption
of
thy flesh and thy food
,
And say
, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
And hast
said
, `
How have I hated instruction, And reproof
hath
my heart despised ,
And have not obeyed
the voice of my teachers
, nor
inclined mine ear to
them
that
instructed
me!
And I
have not hearkened
to
the voice of my directors
, And
to
my
teachers
have
not
inclined mine ear .
I was
almost
in
all evil in the midst of the
congregation
and
assembly.
As
a
little
thing
I have
been
all evil ,
In the midst of an
assembly and
a
company
.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running
waters
out of thine own well.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even
flowing
ones
out of thine own well.
Let thy fountains be dispersed
abroad, and
rivers
of waters in
the
streets
.
Let thy fountains be scattered
abroad, In
broad
places
rivulets
of waters.
Let them be only
thine
own
, and not strangers '
with thee.
Let them be to
thee
for
thyself
, And not to
strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed :
and rejoice with
the wife of thy youth .
Let thy fountain be blessed ,
And rejoice because
of
the wife of thy youth ,
Let
her
be
as
the
loving
hind and pleasant
roe ;
let her breasts
satisfy thee at all times ;
and
be
thou
ravished
always
with
her love.
A
hind of
loves,
and a
roe of
grace!
Let her loves
satisfy thee at all times ,
In
her love magnify
thyself
continually
.
And why wilt
thou, my son, be
ravished
with a strange
woman,
and 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 the ways
of man
are before
the eyes
of the
LORD
, and he
pondereth
all his goings
.
For over-against
the eyes
of Jehovah
are the ways
of each
, And all his paths
He
is
pondering
.
His own iniquities shall
take
the wicked himself
, and he
shall
be
holden
with the cords
of his sins
.
His own iniquities do
capture
the wicked, And with the ropes
of his sin
he
is
holden
.
He shall
die
without instruction ;
and in the greatness
of his folly he
shall
go
astray.
He dieth
without instruction ,
And in the abundance
of his folly magnifieth
himself!
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