Proverbs 5

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:	1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen careful y to what I know;
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.	2 so that you may preserve discretion and your lips may guard knowledge. Take no notice of a loose-living woman,
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:	3 for the lips of the adulteress drip with honey, her palate is more unctuous than oil,
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.	4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.	5 Her feet go down to death, Sheol the goal of her steps;
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.	6 far from fol owing the path of life, her course is uncertain and she does not know it.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.	7 And now, son, listen to me, never deviate from what I say:
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:	8 set your course as far from her as possible, go nowhere near the door of her house,
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:	9 or she wil hand over your honour to others, the years of your life to a man without pity,
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;	10 and strangers wil batten on your property, and your produce go to the house of a stranger,
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,	11 and, at your ending, your body and flesh having been consumed, you wil groan
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;	12 and exclaim, 'Alas, I hated discipline, my heart spurned al correction;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!	13 I would not attend to the voice of my masters, I would not listen to those who tried to teach me.
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.	14 Now I have come to nearly every kind of misery, in the assembly and in the community.'
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.	15 Drink the water from your own storage-well, fresh water from your own spring.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.	16 Even if your fountains overflow outside, your streams of water in the public squares:
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.	17 let them be for you alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.	18 May your fountain-head be blessed! Find joy with the wife you married in your youth,
19 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.	19 fair as a hind, graceful as a fawn: hers the breasts that ever fill you with delight, hers the love that everholds you captive.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?	20 Why be seduced, my son, by someone else's wife, and fondle the breast of a woman who belongs toanother?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.	21 For the eyes of Yahweh observe human ways, and survey al human paths.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.	22 The wicked is snared in his own misdeeds, is caught in the meshes of his own sin.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.	23 For want of discipline, he dies, led astray by his own excessive folly.