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Proverbs 5

A father warns his son about the adulteress. Her words are sweeter than honey, but her end is bitter as wormwood and her paths lead down to death. Keep far from her door, or you will lose your strength and your years to strangers. Instead, drink water from your own well: rejoice in the wife of your youth, because every way a man takes is before the eyes of the LORD.

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Key verses

  • Verse 4Her end is bitter as wormwood.
  • Verse 8Keep your way far from her door.
  • Verse 18Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
  • Verse 21Every way of man is before the eyes of the LORD.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:SelectedProverbs 5:1Ask

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.SelectedProverbs 5:2Ask

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:SelectedProverbs 5:3Ask

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.SelectedProverbs 5:4Ask

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.SelectedProverbs 5:5Ask

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.SelectedProverbs 5:6Ask

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.SelectedProverbs 5:7Ask

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:SelectedProverbs 5:8Ask

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:SelectedProverbs 5:9Ask

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;SelectedProverbs 5:10Ask

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,SelectedProverbs 5:11Ask

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;SelectedProverbs 5:12Ask

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!SelectedProverbs 5:13Ask

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.SelectedProverbs 5:14Ask

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.SelectedProverbs 5:15Ask

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.SelectedProverbs 5:16Ask

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.SelectedProverbs 5:17Ask

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.SelectedProverbs 5:18Ask

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.SelectedProverbs 5:19Ask

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?SelectedProverbs 5:20Ask

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.SelectedProverbs 5:21Ask

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.SelectedProverbs 5:22Ask

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.SelectedProverbs 5:23Ask

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