{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:50:27.677Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The path of life — lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths — thou knowest not."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 5 (YLT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 5](https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/5 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}