Warning Against Adultery
My son, apay attention to my wisdom,bIncline your ear to my discernment;Prov 4:20Prov 22:172 That you may akeep discretionAnd that your blips may guard knowledge.Prov 3:21Mal 2:73 For the lips of a astrange woman bdrip honeyAnd csmoother than oil is her 1speech;Lit palateProv 2:16; 5:20; 7:5; 22:14Song 4:11Ps 55:214 But her end is abitter as wormwood,bSharp as a two-edged sword.Eccl 7:26Ps 57:4; Heb 4:125 Her feet ago down to death,Her steps take hold of Sheol,Prov 7:276 Lest she watch the apath of life;Her tracks are bunstable, she cdoes not know it.Prov 4:26; 5:212 Pet 2:14Prov 30:20
7 aSo now, my sons, listen to meAnd bdo not turn away from the words of my mouth.Prov 7:24Ps 119:1028 aKeep your way far from herAnd do not go near the bdoor of her house,Prov 7:25Prov 9:149 Lest you give your splendor to othersAnd your years to the cruel one;10 Lest strangers be satisfied by your strengthAnd by your painful labor, those in the house of a foreigner;11 And you groan at your 1end,When your flesh and your body are consumed;Or latter12 And you say, “How I have ahated discipline!And my heart bspurned reproof!Prov 1:7, 22, 29Prov 1:25; 12:113 “I have not listened to the voice of my ainstructors,And I have not inclined my ear to my teachers!Prov 1:814 “I was almost in utter ruinIn the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cisternAnd 1fresh water from your own well.Lit flowing16 Should your asprings be dispersed abroad,Streams of water in the streets?Prov 5:18; 9:17; Song 4:12, 1517 Let them be for you alone,And not for strangers with you.18 Let your afountain be blessed,And bbe glad in the cwife of your youth.Prov 9:17; Song 4:12, 15Eccl 9:9Mal 2:1419 As a loving ahind and a graceful doe,Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;Be 1intoxicated always with her love.Or exhilaratedSong 2:9, 17; 4:5; 7:320 So why should you, my son, be intoxicated with a astrange womanAnd embrace the bosom of a bforeign woman?Prov 5:3Prov 2:16; 6:24; 7:5; 23:2721 For the aways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh,And He bwatches all his tracks.Job 14:16; 31:4; 34:21; Ps 119:168; Prov 15:3; Jer 16:17; 32:19; Hos 7:2; Heb 4:13Prov 4:2622 His aown iniquities will capture him who is the wicked one,And with the cords of his sin he will be held fast.Num 32:23; Ps 7:15; 9:15; 40:12; Prov 1:31, 3223 He will adie for lack of discipline,And in the abundance of his 1folly he will 2stumble in intoxication.A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant foolOr go astrayJob 4:21; 36:12