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Proverbs
Offers wisdom and advice on how to live a good and meaningful life.
Chapter 5
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1
KJV:
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Geneva:
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2
KJV:
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Geneva:
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3
KJV:
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Geneva:
For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
4
KJV:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Geneva:
But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
5
KJV:
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Geneva:
Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.
6
KJV:
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Geneva:
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7
KJV:
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Geneva:
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8
KJV:
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Geneva:
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9
KJV:
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Geneva:
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10
KJV:
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Geneva:
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11
KJV:
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Geneva:
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12
KJV:
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Geneva:
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13
KJV:
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Geneva:
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14
KJV:
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Geneva:
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15
KJV:
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Geneva:
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16
KJV:
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Geneva:
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17
KJV:
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Geneva:
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18
KJV:
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Geneva:
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19
KJV:
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.
Geneva:
Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
20
KJV:
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Geneva:
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21
KJV:
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Geneva:
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22
KJV:
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Geneva:
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23
KJV:
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Geneva:
Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.
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