Proverbs 5 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Pitfalls of Immorality

1My son, be attentive to my wisdom,

Incline your ear to my understanding;

2That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment),

And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely.

3For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey

And her speech is smoother than oil;

4But in the end she is bitter like wormwood,

Sharp as a two-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death;

Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),

6So that she does not think about the path of life;

Her ways are aimless and unstable; you cannot know where her path leads.

7¶Now then, my sons, listen to me

And do not depart from (forget) the words of my mouth.

8Let your way be far from her,

And do not go near the door of her house,

9Or you will give your honor to others,

And your years to the cruel one,

10And strangers will be filled with your strength

And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner;

11And you will groan when your life is ending,

When your flesh and your body are consumed;

12And you say, “How I hated instruction and discipline,

And my heart despised correction and reproof!

13“I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,

Nor have I inclined my ear to those who instructed me.

14“I was almost in total ruin

In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

15¶Drink water from your own cistern

And fresh running water from your own well.

16Should your springs (children) be dispersed,

As streams of water in the streets?

17[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone,

And not the children of strangers with you.

18Let your fountain (wife) be blessed,

And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,

Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;

Always be exhilarated and delight in her love.

20Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman

And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?

21For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord,

And He carefully watches all of his paths.

22The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,

And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

23He will die for lack of instruction (discipline),

And in the greatness of his foolishness he will go astray and be lost.