en_wbms - Pro 5 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ My son, perceive thou my wisdom, and bow down thine ear to my prudence;

² that thou keep thy thoughts, and thy lips keep teaching.

³ Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;

⁴ but the last things [of her] be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.

⁵ Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells [or to hell].

⁶ Those [or they] go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.

⁷ Now therefore, my son, hear thou me, and go thou not away from the words of my mouth.

⁸ Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.

⁹ Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;

¹⁰ lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;

¹¹ and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;

¹² and say, Why loathed I teaching, and mine heart assented not to blamings;

¹³ neither I heard the voice of men teaching me, and I bowed not down mine ear to masters?

¹⁴ Almost I was in all-evil, in the midst of the church, and of the synagogue.

¹⁵ Drink thou water of thy cistern, and the floods of thy well.

¹⁶ Thy wells be streamed forth; and part thy waters in streets.

¹⁷ Have thou alone them [or them alone]; and aliens be not thy partners.

¹⁸ Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.

¹⁹ An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.

²⁰ My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?

²¹ The Lord seeth the ways of a man; and he beholdeth all his steps.

²² The wickednesses of a wicked man take him; and he is bound with the ropes of his sins.

²³ He shall die, for he had not learning, and he shall be deceived in the muchliness of his folly.