05 HELL FEET • PROVERBS 5:5

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Proverbs 5:1-23 (New International Version, NIV)

My son, pay attention to my wisdom,

listen well to my words of insight,

² that you may maintain discretion
    and your lips may preserve knowledge.
³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;
⁴ but in the end she is bitter as gall,
    sharp as a double-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death;
    her steps lead straight to the grave.
⁶ She gives no thought to the way of life;
    her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.

⁷ Now then, my sons, listen to me;
    do not turn aside from what I say.
⁸ Keep to a path far from her,
    do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your best strength to others
    and your years to one who is cruel,
¹⁰ lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich another man’s house.
¹¹ At the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are spent.
¹² You will say, “How I hated discipline!
    How my heart spurned correction!
¹³ I would not obey my teachers
    or listen to my instructors.
¹⁴ I have come to the brink of utter ruin
    in the midst of the whole assembly.”

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
    running water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs overflow in the streets,
    your streams of water in the public squares?
^R 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 deer—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be captivated by her love.
²⁰ Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
    Why embrace the bosom of another man’s wife?

²¹ For a man’s ways are in full view of the Lord,
    and he examines all his paths.
²² The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him;
    the cords of his sin hold him fast.
²³ He will die for lack of discipline,
    led astray by his own great folly.