Proverbs 5 – NIV & CCBT

New International Version

Proverbs 5:1-23

Warning Against Adultery

1My son, pay attention to my wisdom,

turn your ear to my words of insight,

2that you may maintain discretion

and your lips may preserve knowledge.

3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil;

4but in the end she is bitter as gall,

sharp as a double-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death;

her steps lead straight to the grave.

6She gives no thought to the way of life;

her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.

7Now then, my sons, listen to me;

do not turn aside from what I say.

8Keep to a path far from her,

do not go near the door of her house,

9lest you lose your honor to others

and your dignity5:9 Or years to one who is cruel,

10lest strangers feast on your wealth

and your toil enrich the house of another.

11At the end of your life you will groan,

when your flesh and body are spent.

12You will say, “How I hated discipline!

How my heart spurned correction!

13I would not obey my teachers

or turn my ear to my instructors.

14And I was soon in serious trouble

in the assembly of God’s people.”

15Drink water from your own cistern,

running water from your own well.

16Should your springs overflow in the streets,

your streams of water in the public squares?

17Let them be yours alone,

never to be shared with strangers.

18May your fountain be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19A loving doe, a graceful deer—

may her breasts satisfy you always,

may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

20Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

21For your ways are in full view of the Lord,

and he examines all your paths.

22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;

the cords of their sins hold them fast.

23For lack of discipline they will die,

led astray by their own great folly.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

箴言 5:1-23

遠避淫亂

1孩子啊,要留心聽我的智言,

側耳聽我的慧語,

2好保持明辨力,

嘴唇謹守知識。

3淫婦滿口甜言蜜語,

油嘴滑舌,

4最後卻苦如艾草,

鋒利似雙刃劍。

5她的雙腳走進死地,

她的步伐邁向陰間。

6她不走生命的康莊大道,

偏離了正途也不自知。

7孩子們啊,要聽從我,

不可違背我的話!

8要遠遠避開淫婦,

不可靠近她的家門,

9免得你為別人枉費精力,

為殘忍之徒斷送青春;

10免得外人吞盡你的財富,

你的辛勞所得歸給他人。

11臨終之時,肉體衰殘,

你必呻吟不止,

12說:「我為何厭惡教誨,

心裡藐視責備!

13不聽從老師的話,

不側耳聽導師之言。

14在眾人面前,

我幾乎身敗名裂。」

15你當喝自己池中的水,

飲自己井裡的活水。

16你的泉水豈可外流?

你的河水怎可溢到街上?

17這些要專屬於你,

不可與外人共享。

18要使你的泉源蒙福,

要愛你年輕時所娶的妻。

19她高貴可愛宛如母鹿,

願她的胸令你時時滿足,

願她的愛令你常常陶醉。

20孩子啊,為何迷戀淫婦?

為何擁抱妓女的胸?

21因為人的所作所為逃不過耶和華的眼目,

祂必鑒察人走的一切路。

22惡人被自己的罪惡捉住,

被自己的罪惡捆綁。

23他因不聽教誨而喪命,

因極其愚妄而入歧途。