Proverbs · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Proverbs 5 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
1 HIJO mío, está atento á mi sabiduría, y á mi inteligencia inclina tu oído;
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
2 Para que guardes consejo, y tus labios conserven la ciencia.
2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 ¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
3 Porque los labios de la extraña destilan miel, y su paladar es más blando que el aceite:
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
4 Mas su fin es amargo como el ajenjo, agudo como cuchillo de dos filos.
4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
5 Sus pies descienden á la muerte; sus pasos sustentan el sepulcro:
5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
6 Sus caminos son instables; no [los] conocerás, si no considerares el camino de vida.
6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
7 Ahora pues, hijos, oidme, y no os apartéis de las razones de mi boca.
7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
8 Aleja de ella tu camino, y no te acerques á la puerta de su casa;
8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
9 Porque no des á los extraños tu honor, y tus años á cruel;
9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
10 Porque no se harten los extraños de tu fuerza, y tus trabajos [estén] en casa del extraño;
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
11 Y gimas en tus postrimerías, cuando se consumiere tu carne y tu cuerpo,
11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
12 Y digas: ¡Cómo aborrecí el consejo, y mi corazón menospreció la reprensión;
12 and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
13 Y no oí la voz de los que me adoctrinaban, y á los que me enseñaban no incliné mi oído!
13 I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
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.
14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
15 Bebe el agua de tu cisterna, y los raudales de tu pozo.
15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
16 Derrámense por de fuera tus fuentes, en las plazas los ríos de aguas.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
17 Sean para ti solo, y no para los extraños contigo.
17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
18 Sea bendito tu manantial; y alégrate con la mujer de tu mocedad.
18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
19 [Como] cierva amada y graciosa corza, sus pechos te satisfagan en todo tiempo; y en su amor recréate siempre.
19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
20 ¿Y por qué, hijo mío, andarás ciego con la ajena, y abrazarás el seno de la extraña?
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
21 Pues que los caminos del hombre están ante los ojos de Jehová, y él considera todas sus veredas.
21 For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
22 ¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
22 Prenderán al impío sus propias iniquidades, y detenido será con las cuerdas de su pecado.
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
23 El morirá por falta de corrección; y errará por la grandeza de su locura.
23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 22:17; Proverbs 4:20; Revelation 2:11; Proverbs 2:1; Revelation 3:13
- 2 Proverbs 16:23; Malachi 2:6–7; Proverbs 15:7; Song of Songs 4:11; Proverbs 10:21
- 3 Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:21; Psalm 55:21; Proverbs 7:5
- 4 Ecclesiastes 7:26; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 55:21; Hebrews 4:12; Proverbs 9:18
- 5 Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 2:18–19
- 6 Proverbs 4:26; Psalm 16:11; Proverbs 5:21; Proverbs 30:20; Psalm 119:59
- 7 Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 22:17–21; Proverbs 7:24; Proverbs 4:21; Hebrews 12:25
- 8 Proverbs 7:25; Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 6:13; Proverbs 4:15; Proverbs 6:27–28
- 9 Nehemiah 13:26; Hosea 4:13–14; Judges 16:19–21; Genesis 38:23–26
- 10 Hosea 7:9; Proverbs 6:35; Proverbs 31:3; Luke 15:30
- 11 Romans 6:21; Revelation 22:15; Hebrews 13:4; Numbers 5:27; 1 Corinthians 5:4–5
- 12 Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 15:5; Proverbs 1:25; Proverbs 1:22
- 13 1 Thessalonians 4:8; Hebrews 13:7; Luke 15:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
- 14 Proverbs 13:20; 2 Peter 2:10–18; 1 Corinthians 10:6–8; Hosea 4:11–14; Numbers 25:1–6
- 15 1 Corinthians 7:2–5; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 5:18–19
- 16 Psalm 128:3; Psalm 127:3; Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 24:60; Isaiah 48:21
- 18 Ecclesiastes 9:9; Malachi 2:14–15; Song of Songs 4:15; Song of Songs 4:12
- 19 Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 4:5; Song of Songs 8:14; Song of Songs 2:9; Proverbs 5:15
- 20 Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 23:27–28; 1 Kings 11:1; Proverbs 23:33
- 21 Hebrews 4:13; Proverbs 15:3; Job 34:21; Jeremiah 32:19; Jeremiah 16:17
- 22 Proverbs 1:31–32; Proverbs 11:5; Hosea 4:11–14; Ephesians 5:5–6; Proverbs 1:18
- 23 Job 36:12; Job 4:21; 2 Peter 2:15–22; Proverbs 14:32; Proverbs 10:21
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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).
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“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).
… 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 …
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)
… "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)
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)
"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)