0 SAB Proverbs 5

Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 6:24

Trivia: What will those who trouble their own house inherit?

Proverbs

CHAPTER 5

Let her breasts satisfy you at all times
5:1-23

1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

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

3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:,

4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Strange women have sweet lips and smooth mouths.

5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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

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

9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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

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

15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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

But they will lead you to hell.

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

Have fun with your wife.

19Let 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.

Let her breasts satisfy you at all times.

Be ravished with her love.

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

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

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

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

But don't embrace the bosom of a strange woman.

Cervantes3 months ago

What's really funny about this is that it is attributed to Solomon. (Actually it was probably written in the post-exilic period, and draws on Persian sources.) Solomon was said to have 700 wives and 300 concubines.

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