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Proverbs 5 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

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LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 [My] son, attend to my wisdom, And apply thine ear to my words;
1 HIJO mío, está atento á mi sabiduría, y á mi inteligencia inclina tu oído;
2 That thou mayest keep good understanding, And the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
2 Para que guardes consejo, y tus labios conserven la ciencia.
3 For honey drops from the lips of a harlot, Who for a season pleases thy palate:
3 Porque los labios de la extraña destilan miel, y su paladar es más blando que el aceite:
4 But afterward thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, And sharper than a two-edged sword.
4 Mas su fin es amargo como el ajenjo, agudo como cuchillo de dos filos.
5 For the feet of folly lead Those who deal with her down to the grave with death; And her steps are not established.
5 Sus pies descienden á la muerte; sus pasos sustentan el sepulcro:
6 For she goes not upon the paths of life; But her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
6 Sus caminos son instables; no [los] conocerás, si no considerares el camino de vida.
7 Now then, [my] son, hear me, And make not my words of none effect.
7 Ahora pues, hijos, oidme, y no os apartéis de las razones de mi boca.
8 Remove thy way far from her; Draw not near to the doors of her house:
8 Aleja de ella tu camino, y no te acerques á la puerta de su casa;
9 Lest thou give away thy life to others, And thy substance to the merciless:
9 Porque no des á los extraños tu honor, y tus años á cruel;
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors come into the houses of strangers;
10 Porque no se harten los extraños de tu fuerza, y tus trabajos [estén] en casa del extraño;
11 And thou repent at last, When the flesh of thy body is consumed,
11 Y gimas en tus postrimerías, cuando se consumiere tu carne y tu cuerpo,
12 And thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart avoided reproofs!
12 Y digas: ¡Cómo aborrecí el consejo, y mi corazón menospreció la reprensión;
13 I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, Neither did I apply mine ear.
13 Y no oí la voz de los que me adoctrinaban, y á los que me enseñaban no incliné mi oído!
14 I was almost in all evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
14 Casi en todo mal he estado, en medio de la sociedad y de la congregación.
15 Drink waters out of thine own vessels, And out of thine own springing wells.
15 Bebe el agua de tu cisterna, y los raudales de tu pozo.
16 Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, But let thy waters go into thy streets.
16 Derrámense por de fuera tus fuentes, en las plazas los ríos de aguas.
17 Let them be only thine own, And let no stranger partake with thee.
17 Sean para ti solo, y no para los extraños contigo.
18 Let thy fountain of water be [truly] thine own; And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
18 Sea bendito tu manantial; y alégrate con la mujer de tu mocedad.
19 Let [thy] loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, And let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; For ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
19 [Como] cierva amada y graciosa corza, sus pechos te satisfagan en todo tiempo; y en su amor recréate siempre.
20 Be not intimate with a strange woman, Neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
20 ¿Y por qué, hijo mío, andarás ciego con la ajena, y abrazarás el seno de la extraña?
21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, And he looks on all his paths.
21 Pues que los caminos del hombre están ante los ojos de Jehová, y él considera todas sus veredas.
22 Iniquities ensnare a man, And every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
22 Prenderán al impío sus propias iniquidades, y detenido será con las cuerdas de su pecado.
23 Such a man dies with the uninstructed; And he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, And has perished through folly.
23 El morirá por falta de corrección; y errará por la grandeza de su locura.
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Proverbs 22:17; Proverbs 4:20; Revelation 2:11; Proverbs 2:1; Revelation 3:13
  2. 2 Proverbs 16:23; Malachi 2:6–7; Proverbs 15:7; Song of Songs 4:11; Proverbs 10:21
  3. 3 Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:21; Psalm 55:21; Proverbs 7:5
  4. 4 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 55:21; Hebrews 4:12; Proverbs 9:18
  5. 5 Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 2:18–19
  6. 6 Proverbs 4:26; Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 30:20; Psalm 119:59
  7. 7 Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 22:17–21; Proverbs 7:24; Proverbs 4:21; Hebrews 12:25
  8. 8 Proverbs 7:25; Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 6:13; Proverbs 4:15; Proverbs 6:27–28
  9. 9 Nehemiah 13:26; Hosea 4:13–14; Judges 16:19–21; Genesis 38:23–26
  10. 10 Hosea 7:9; Proverbs 6:35; Proverbs 31:3; Luke 15:30
  11. 11 Romans 6:21; Revelation 22:15; Hebrews 13:4; Numbers 5:27; 1 Corinthians 5:4–5
  12. 12 Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 15:5; Proverbs 1:25; Proverbs 1:22
  13. 13 1 Thessalonians 4:8; Hebrews 13:7; Luke 15:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
  14. 14 Proverbs 13:20; 2 Peter 2:10–18; 1 Corinthians 10:6–8; Hosea 4:11–14; Numbers 25:1–6
  15. 15 1 Corinthians 7:2–5; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 5:18–19
  16. 16 Psalm 128:3; Psalm 127:3; Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 24:60; Isaiah 48:21
  17. 18 Ecclesiastes 9:9; Malachi 2:14–15; Song of Songs 4:15; Song of Songs 4:12
  18. 19 Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 4:5; Song of Songs 8:14; Song of Songs 2:9; Proverbs 5:15
  19. 20 Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 23:27–28; 1 Kings 11:1; Proverbs 23:33
  20. 21 Hebrews 4:13; Proverbs 15:3; Job 34:21; Jeremiah 32:19; Jeremiah 16:17
  21. 22 Proverbs 1:31–32; Proverbs 11:5; Hosea 4:11–14; Ephesians 5:5–6; Proverbs 1:18
  22. 23 Job 36:12; Job 4:21; 2 Peter 2:15–22; Proverbs 14:32; Proverbs 10:21

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 5:22 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VII)

    … in man." For He called all men that mourn; and granting forgiveness to those who had been led into captivity by their sins, He loosed them from their chains, of whom Solomon says, "Every one shall be holden with the cords of his own sins." Therefore did the Spirit of God descend upon Him, [the Spirit] of Him who had …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 5:16 Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Homily VII)

    For it is even this Holy Spirit, whom the bad cannot receive, even He is that Fountain of which the Scripture saith, "Let the fountain of thy water be thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee." For all who love not God, are strangers, are antichrists.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 5:2–4 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIII)

    … "Give not heed to a bad woman: for honey droppeth from the lips of a woman that is an harlot, which, for a season, is luscious unto thy throat; but afterwards thou shalt find it more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword." Unto these last then let us listen, not unto those.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 5:15 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVI)

    Let then thus much suffice concerning those outcasts; and now let us return to the divine Scriptures, and let us drink waters out of our own cisterns [that is, the holy Fathers ], and out of our own springing wells.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  5. Quotes verse 5:22 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XXXV)

    "The wicked shall be holden with the cords of his own sins." Thereby are they deceived, whereby they would deceive.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)