English / ERV
Proverbs 5
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Son, listen to this piece of wisdom from me. Pay attention to what I know to be true.
- 2Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.
- 3Now, another man’s wife might be very charming, and the words from her lips so sweet and inviting.
- 4But in the end, she will bring only bitterness and pain. It will be like bitter poison and a sharp sword.
- 5She is on a path leading to death, and she will lead you straight to the grave.
- 6Don’t follow her. She has lost her way and does not even know it. Be careful. Stay on the road that leads to life.
- 7Now, my sons, listen to me. Don’t forget the words I say.
- 8Stay away from the woman who commits adultery. Don’t even go near her house.
- 9If you do, others will get the honor you should have had. Some stranger will get everything you worked years to get.
- 10People you don’t know will take all your wealth. Others will get what you worked for.
- 11At the end of your life, you will be sad that you ruined your health and lost everything you had.
- 12[12-13] Then you will say, “Why didn’t I listen to my parents? Why didn’t I pay attention to my teachers? I didn’t want to be disciplined. I refused to be corrected.
- 14So now I have suffered through just about every kind of trouble anyone can have, and everyone knows it.”
- 15Now, about sex and marriage: Drink only the water that comes from your own well,