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