# Proverbs 5

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/5

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. My son, give heed to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding.
2. that you guard discretion, and your lips preserve knowledge.
3. For a wayward woman's lips drip honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5. Her feet descend to death; her steps grasp Sheol.
6. She does not ponder life's path; her paths wander, and you do not know them.
7. Now then, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
8. Keep your path far from her, and do not approach the entrance of her house.
9. lest you give your glory to others, and your years to the ruthless one
10. lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in a foreigner's house.
11. You will moan at your end when your flesh and body are consumed.
12. and say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised rebuke!”
13. I neither listened to the voice of my teachers nor turned my ear to my instructors.
14. I nearly came to utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.
15. Drink water from your cistern, and flowing water from within your well.
16. Should your springs scatter abroad in the streets, streams of water in the plazas?
17. Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
18. May your fountain be blessed, and be glad with the wife from your youth.
19. A loving doe, a graceful roe—her breasts satisfy you at all times; be continually enraptured by her love.
20. Why, my son, should you go astray with a stranger and embrace a foreigner's bosom?
21. For a man's ways are before Yahweh's eyes, and he weighs all his paths.
22. His iniquities snare the wicked, and the cords of his sin hold him fast.
23. He will die for lack of discipline; in the abundance of his folly he will go astray.

## Nearby chapters

[Proverbs 4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/4.md)
[Proverbs 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/6.md)

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