Proverbs

Proverbs 5 ©

1 Solomon again exhorteth to attend to his wise counsels. 3 The mischiefs of whoredom and riot. 15 An exhortation to abide by the pleasures of chaste marriage. 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.

1

MY son, aattend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

a ch. 4.1,20; 1.2-6,8. Is. 55.3. Re. 2.7,11,17,29; 13.9.
2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that bthy lips may keep knowledge.

b Mal. 2.7. ch. 16.23; 10.20; 12.18; 15.2,4. Ca. 4.11.
3

¶For cthe lips of a *strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her 1mouth is smoother than oil:

c ch. 2.16; 7.21; 6.24. Ps. 55.21.
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But dher end is bitter as *wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

d Ec. 7.26. ch. 2.18,19; 6.26; 7.27; 9.18. Ps. 55.21.
5

Her efeet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

e ch. 7.27; 2.18. He. 13.4. Re. 21.8.
6

Lest thou shouldest fponder the path of life, her ways are gmoveable, that thou canst not know them.

f Hag. 1.5. Ps. 119.59. De. 32.29.
g ch. 7.11-13; 2.16,17. Ec. 7.26.
7

hHear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

h Ps. 34.11. ch. 3.1,21; 4.1,20,21; 7.24; 22.17-21. He. 12.25; 2.1,3.
8

iRemove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

i ch. 4.14. Ep. 5.11. 1Th. 5.22. Ro. 12.9.
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Lest jthou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

j 1Th. 4.4. Re. 14.9,10. ch. 6.26,33,34; 31.3.
10

Lest kstrangers be filled with 2thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

k Ho. 7.9. ch. 6.26.
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And lthou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

l Ro. 6.21. He. 12.17. ch. 7.23.
12

And say, mHow have I hated instruction, and nmy heart despised reproof;

m Zec. 7.11-14. Ps. 50.17; 73.22. Lu. 19.42. Mat. 23.37. ch. 6.32. 2Ch. 36.15,16. Je. 44.4,5. Zec. 1.4-6.
n ch. 1.25; 6.23; 12.1.
13

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

14

I owas almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

o ch. 6.26,29,32,33; 7.23. He. 13.4. Re. 22.15.
15

pDrink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

p v.18,19. Ec. 9.9. 1Co. 7.2-5,9. 1Pe. 3.7. ch. 23.27; 9.17.
16

Let thy qfountains be dispersed *abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

q Le. 20.18. De. 33.28. Is. 48.1. Ps. 68.26; 128.2; 127.3.
17

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

18

Let rthy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

r 1Co. 7.3. Mal. 2.14. ch. 2.17. Is. 62.5.
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sLet her be as the loving thind and pleasant roe; let her breasts 3satisfy thee at all times; and 4be thou ravished always with her love.

s Ec. 9.9. 1Co. 7.3-5. Ca. 2.9; 7.3-8; 4.5; 1.13.
t Ca. 2.7; 3.5.
20

And uwhy wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a *strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

u ch. 2.16-19; 6.24-35; 7.13-23; 9.13-18; 23.27,28.
21

For vthe ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

v 2Ch. 16.9. Job 31.4; 34.21. ch. 15.3. Je. 16.17; 32.19. Ho. 7.2. He. 4.13.
22

¶His wown iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be *holden with the cords of his 5sins.

w ch. 11.3,5,6. Ps. 9.15,16. La. 1.14. Je. 2.19. He. 13.4. Ho. 4.11-14.
23

He xshall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

x ch. 10.21. Job 4.21; 30.12; 36.12. Ps. 81.12. Re. 22.11. ch. 14.14,32.