Proverbs 5 | BSB Bible Study

Proverbs 5:1 (BSB)
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,

Proverbs 5:2 (BSB)
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

Proverbs 5:3 (BSB)
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:4 (BSB)
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5 (BSB)
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 5:6 (BSB)
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

Proverbs 5:7 (BSB)
So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8 (BSB)
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9 (BSB)
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10 (BSB)
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11 (BSB)
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12 (BSB)
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13 (BSB)
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:14 (BSB)
I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

Proverbs 5:15 (BSB)
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:16 (BSB)
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:17 (BSB)
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18 (BSB)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Proverbs 5:19 (BSB)
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Proverbs 5:20 (BSB)
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:21 (BSB)
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Proverbs 5:22 (BSB)
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

Proverbs 5:23 (BSB)
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

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