# Proverbs 5

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my insight, [2] that you may maintain discretion
and your lips may preserve knowledge. [3] Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her speech is smoother than oil, [4] in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a double-edged sword. [5] Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to Sheol. [6] She does not consider the path of life;
she does not know that her ways are unstable. [7] So now, my sons, listen to me,
and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth. [8] Keep your path far from her;
do not go near the door of her house, [9] lest you concede your vigor to others,
and your years to one who is cruel; [10] lest strangers feast on your wealth,
and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. [11] At the end of your life you will groan
when your flesh and your body are spent, [12] and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof! [13] I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my mentors. [14] I am on the brink of utter ruin
in the midst of the whole assembly.” [15] Drink water from your own cistern,
and running water from your own well. [16] Why should your springs flow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares? [17] Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers. [18] May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: [19] A loving doe, a graceful fawn—
may her breasts satisfy you always;
may you be captivated by her love forever. [20] Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,
or embrace the bosom of a stranger? [21] For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,
and the LORD examines all his paths. [22] The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him;
the cords of his sin entangle him. [23] He dies for lack of discipline,
led astray by his own great folly.

## Each verse

- Proverbs 5:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/1
- Proverbs 5:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/2
- Proverbs 5:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/3
- Proverbs 5:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/4
- Proverbs 5:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/5
- Proverbs 5:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/6
- Proverbs 5:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/7
- Proverbs 5:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/8
- Proverbs 5:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/9
- Proverbs 5:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/10
- Proverbs 5:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/11
- Proverbs 5:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/12
- Proverbs 5:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/13
- Proverbs 5:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/14
- Proverbs 5:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/15
- Proverbs 5:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/16
- Proverbs 5:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/17
- Proverbs 5:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/18
- Proverbs 5:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/19
- Proverbs 5:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/20
- Proverbs 5:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/21
- Proverbs 5:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/22
- Proverbs 5:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/5/23