Proverbs 5:1-16

¹My son, listen carefully to some more wise things that I will tell you. Listen well to what I am going to teach you.

²If you do that, you will be able to choose wisely what to do, and you will know the right things to say MTY.

³What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,

⁴but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.

⁵If you go where she goes MTY, you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.

⁶She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life. She walks down a crooked path, and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.

⁷So now, my sons, listen to me. ◄Never turn aside from/always remember► LIT what I am about to tell you.

⁸Run away from immoral women! Do not go near the doors of their houses!

⁹If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation► and that woman's husband will not act mercifully toward you; he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!

¹⁰Foreigners will take your money, and all the good things that you have worked for will ◄end up in their hands/become their possessions►.

¹¹And when you are about to die, you will groan with severe pain because diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.

¹²Then you will say, “I hated it when people tried to correct me. I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.

¹³I did not heed what my teachers said! I paid no attention to those who tried to teach me something about my behavior.

¹⁴Now I am almost ruined, and I will be disgraced in public gatherings.”

¹⁵Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well MET, enjoy having sex EUP only with your own wife.

¹⁶Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, you should not have sex with other women. MET, EUP