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Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5

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Chapter 5 of Proverbs—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ My son, to my wisdom O do pay attention.1 To my discernment incline your ears,2
  2. so as to guard thinking abilities;3 and may your own lips safeguard knowledge itself.4
  3. ¶ For as a honeycomb the lips of a strange woman keep dripping,5 and her palate is smoother than oil.6
  4. But the aftereffect from her is as bitter as wormwood;7 it is as sharp as a two-edged sword.8
  5. Her feet are descending to death.9 Her very steps take hold on Sheʹol[a] itself.10
  6. The path of life she does not contemplate.11 Her tracks have wandered she does not know [where].12
  7. So now, O sons, listen to me13 and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.14
  8. Keep your way far off from alongside her, and do not get near to the entrance of her house,15
  9. that you may not give to others your dignity,[b]16 nor your years to what is cruel;17
  10. that strangers may not satisfy themselves with your power,18 nor the things you got by pain be in the house of a foreigner,19
  11. nor you have to groan in your future20 when your flesh and your organism come to an end.21
  12. And you will have to say: “How I have hated discipline22 and my heart has disrespected even reproof!23
  13. And I have not listened to the voice of my instructors,24 and to my teachers I have not inclined my ear.25
  14. Easily I have come to be in every sort of badness26 in the midst of the congregation and of the assembly.”27
  15. ¶ Drink water out of your own cistern, and tricklings out of the midst of your own well.28
  16. Should your springs be scattered out of doors,29 [your] streams of water in the public squares themselves?
  17. Let them prove to be for you alone, and not for strangers with you.30
  18. Let your water source prove to be blessed,31 and rejoice with the wife of your youth,32
  19. a lovable hind and a charming mountain goat.33 Let her own breasts intoxicate you at all times.34 With her love may you be in an ecstasy constantly.35
  20. So why should you, my son, be in an ecstasy with a strange woman or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?36
  21. For the ways of man[c] are in front of the eyes of Jehovah,37 and he is contemplating all his tracks.38
  22. His own errors will catch the wicked one,[d]39 and in the ropes of his own sin he will be taken hold of.40
  23. He will be the one to die because there is no discipline,41 and [because] in the abundance of his foolishness he goes astray.[e]42

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Sheol.” Heb., sheʼohlʹ; Gr., haiʹden; Lat., inʹfe·ros.
  2. ^ “Dignity,” M; TSy, “vital energy”; LXX, “life”; Vg, “honor.”
  3. ^ “Man.” Heb., ʼish.
  4. ^ Or, “catch him with the wicked one.”
  5. ^ “Will be swept away,” by a correction of M; LXX, “has been destroyed.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Pr 2:2; Jm 1:19
  2. ^ 1Ki 4:29; Re 2:11
  3. ^ Pr 1:4; 8:12
  4. ^ Pr 15:7; Ml 2:7
  5. ^ Pr 2:16; 7:21
  6. ^ Pr 9:17
  7. ^ Ec 7:26
  8. ^ Nu 25:8; Pr 6:32
  9. ^ Pr 2:19; 9:18
  10. ^ Pr 7:27
  11. ^ Pr 11:19, 27
  12. ^ Pr 7:11
  13. ^ Pr 22:17; Heb 12:25
  14. ^ Pr 2:1
  15. ^ Pr 4:15; 6:27; 9:14
  16. ^ 1Ch 5:1; Pr 6:33; 29:3
  17. ^ Pr 6:34; 7:23
  18. ^ Pr 31:3; Lu 15:30
  19. ^ Ge 34:27
  20. ^ De 32:29; 2Sa 12:10; Ro 6:21; Heb 13:4
  21. ^ 1Co 5:5; Re 21:8
  22. ^ Ps 50:17; Zc 7:11; Jn 3:20
  23. ^ Ge 19:9; Eze 33:8
  24. ^ Lu 15:18
  25. ^ 1Th 4:8
  26. ^ Nu 25:2; 1Co 10:6; Jd 8
  27. ^ 1Co 10:11; Jd 4
  28. ^ Sg 4:15; 1Co 7:3; Heb 13:4
  29. ^ Pr 5:20
  30. ^ Ge 2:24; 20:3; Mt 14:4
  31. ^ 1Co 7:2, 5
  32. ^ De 24:5; Ec 9:9; Ml 2:15
  33. ^ Sg 2:9
  34. ^ Sg 4:5
  35. ^ Ge 26:8; 29:20; Sg 8:6; Eph 5:25
  36. ^ Pr 2:16; 7:22; 22:14; 23:27
  37. ^ 2Ch 16:9; Jb 34:21; Ps 11:4; Je 17:10; 23:24; 32:19
  38. ^ Ps 17:3; Je 16:17; Heb 4:13
  39. ^ Ps 7:16; Ga 6:7
  40. ^ Pr 11:21; Eph 5:6; Heb 13:4
  41. ^ Pr 10:17
  42. ^ Ps 81:12; Pr 19:3; 2Pe 2:15

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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