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