TOPICAL PROVERBS
by Grant Hodges
Wisdom for the Children of the King
PROSTITUTES
| NIV | |
| 2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | |
| 2:11 - Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. | |
| 2:12 - Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse; | |
| 2:13 - who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways; | |
| 2:14 - who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil; | |
| 2:15 - whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways; | |
| 2:16 - It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words; | |
| 2:17 - who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God; | |
| 2:18 - For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead; | |
| 2:19 - None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. | |
| 5:3 - For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; | |
| 5:4 - but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. | |
| 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. | |
| 5:6 - She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not. | |
| 5:7 - Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say. | |
| 5:8 - Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, | |
| 5:9 - lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel, | |
| 5:10 - lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house; | |
| 5:11 - At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent; | |
| 5:12 - You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! | |
| 5:13 - I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors! | |
| 5:14 - I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly." | |
| 5:15 - Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. | |
| 5:16 - Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? | |
| 5:17 - Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. | |
| 5:18 - May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. | |
| 5:19 - A loving doe, a graceful deer-- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love. | |
| 5:20 - Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife? | |
| 5:21 - For a man's ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all his paths. | |
| 5:22 - The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. | |
| 5:23 - He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly. | |
| 6:23 - For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life | |
| 6:24 - keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife. | |
| 6:25 - Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. | |
| 6:26 - for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. | |
| 7:4 - Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your kinsman; | |
| 7:5 - they will keep you from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words. | |
| 7:6 - At the window of my house I looked out through the lattice, | |
| 7:7 - I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who lacked judgment, | |
| 7:8 - He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house, | |
| 7:9 - at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in. | |
| 7:10 - Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent. | |
| 7:11 - (She is loud and defiant, her feet never stay at home; | |
| 7:12 - now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.) | |
| 7:13 - She took hold of him and kissed him and with a brazen face she said: | |
| 7:14 - "I have fellowship offerings at home; today I fulfilled my vows. | |
| 7:15 - So I came out to meet you; I looked for you and have found you! | |
| 7:16 - I have covered my bed with colored linens from Egypt. | |
| 7:17 - I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. | |
| 7:18 - Come, let's drink deep of love till morning; let's enjoy ourselves with love! | |
| 7:19 - My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; | |
| 7:20 - He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon." | |
| 7:21 - With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. | |
| 7:22 - All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose, | |
| 7:23 - till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life. | |
| 7:24 - Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say. | |
| 7:25 - Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. | |
| 7:26 - Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng. | |
| 7:27 - Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death. | |
| 9:13 - The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. | |
| 9:14 - She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, | |
| 9:15 - calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way: | |
| 9:16 - "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment, | |
| 9:17 - "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!" | |
| 9:18 - But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave. | |
| 22:14 - The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the Lord's wrath will fall into it. | |
| 23:26 - My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep to my ways. | |
| 23:27 - for a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well. | |
| 23:28 - Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies the unfaithful among men. | |
| 27:13 - Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman. | |
| 29:3 - A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. | |
| 30:20 - "This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.' | |
| NASB | |
| 2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | |
| 2:11 - For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | |
| 2:12 - To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things; | |
| 2:13 - From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; | |
| 2:14 - Who delight in doing evil and rejoice in the perversity of evil; | |
| 2:15 - Whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways; | |
| 2:16 - To deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words; | |
| 2:17 - That leaves the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | |
| 2:18 - For her house sinks down to death and her tracks lead to the dead; | |
| 2:19 - None who go to her return again, nor do they reach the paths of life. | |
| 5:3 - For the lips of an adulteress drip honey and smoother than oil is her speech; | |
| 5:4 - But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. | |
| 5:5 - Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold of Sheol. | |
| 5:6 - She does not ponder the path of life; her ways are unstable, she does not know it. | |
| 5:7 - Now then, my sons, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth. | |
| 5:8 - Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house, | |
| 5:9 - Or you will give your vigor to others and your years to the cruel one; | |
| 5:10 - And strangers will be filled with your strength and your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien; | |
| 5:11 - And you groan at your final end, when your flesh and your body are consumed; | |
| 5:12 - And you say, "How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof! | |
| 5:13 - "I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to my instructors! | |
| 5:14 - "I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation." | |
| 5:15 - Drink water from your own cistern and fresh water from your own well. | |
| 5:16 - Should your springs be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets? | |
| 5:17 - Let them be yours alone and not for strangers with you. | |
| 5:18 - Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. | |
| 5:19 - As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. | |
| 5:20 - For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? | |
| 5:21 - For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He watches all his paths. | |
| 5:22 - is own iniquities will capture the wicked, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. | |
| 5:23 - He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray. | |
| 6:23 - For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life | |
| 6:24 - To keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. | |
| 6:25 - Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids. | |
| 6:26 - For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, and an adulteress hunts for the precious life. | |
| 7:4 - Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"and call understanding your intimate friend; | |
| 7:5 - That they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. | |
| 7:6 - For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, | |
| 7:7 - And I saw among the naive, and discerned among the youths a young man lacking sense, | |
| 7:8 - Passing through the street near her corner; and he takes the way to her house, | |
| 7:9 - In the twilight, in the evening, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. | |
| 7:10 - And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. | |
| 7:11 - She is boisterous and rebellious, her feet do not remain at home; | |
| 7:12 - She is now in the streets, now in the squares, and lurks by every corner. | |
| 7:13 - So she seizes him and kisses him and with a brazen face she says to him: | |
| 7:14 - "I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows. | |
| 7:15 - "Therefore I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. | |
| 7:16 - "I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens of Egypt. | |
| 7:17 - "I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. | |
| 7:18 - "Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses. | |
| 7:19 - "For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey; | |
| 7:20 - He has taken a bag of money with him, at the full moon he will come home." | |
| 7:21 - With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him. | |
| 7:22 - Suddenly he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool, | |
| 7:23 - Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it will cost him his life. | |
| 7:24 - Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth. | |
| 7:25 - Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths. | |
| 7:26 - Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths. | |
| 7:27 - Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. | |
| 9:13 - The woman of folly is boisterous, she is naive and knows nothing. | |
| 9:14 - She sits at the doorway of her house, on a seat by the high places of the city, | |
| 9:15 - Calling to those who pass by, who are making their paths straight: | |
| 9:16 - "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,"and to him who lacks understanding she says, | |
| 9:17 - "Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant." | |
| 9:18 - But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. | |
| 22:14 - The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; He who is cursed of the LORD will fall into it. | |
| 23:26 - Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes delight in my ways. | |
| 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep pit and an adulterous woman is a narrow well. | |
| 23:28 - Surely she lurks as a robber, and increases the faithless among men. | |
| 27:13 - Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger; And for an adulterous woman hold him in pledge. | |
| 29:3 - A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth. | |
| 30:20 - This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wrong." | |
| KJV | |
| 2:10 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; | |
| 2:11 - Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: | |
| 2:12 - To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; | |
| 2:13 - Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; | |
| 2:14 - Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; | |
| 2:15 - Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: | |
| 2:16 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; | |
| 2:17 - Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. | |
| 2:18 - For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. | |
| 2:19 - None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. | |
| 5:3 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | |
| 5:4 - But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | |
| 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | |
| 5:6 - Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | |
| 5:7 - Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | |
| 5:8 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | |
| 5:9 - Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | |
| 5:10 - Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | |
| 5:11 - And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | |
| 5:12 - And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | |
| 5:13 - And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | |
| 5:14 - I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | |
| 5:15 - Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | |
| 5:16 - Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | |
| 5:17 - Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | |
| 5:18 - Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | |
| 5:19 - 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. | |
| 5:20 - And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | |
| 5:21 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | |
| 5:22 - His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | |
| 5:23 - He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | |
| 6:23 - For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: | |
| 6:24 - To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. | |
| 6:25 - Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. | |
| 6:26 - For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. | |
| 7:4 - Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: | |
| 7:5 - That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. | |
| 7:6 - For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, | |
| 7:7 - And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, | |
| 7:8 - Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, | |
| 7:9 - In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: | |
| 7:10 - And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. | |
| 7:11 - (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: | |
| 7:12 - Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) | |
| 7:13 - So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, | |
| 7:14 - I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. | |
| 7:15 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. | |
| 7:16 - I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. | |
| 7:17 - I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | |
| 7:18 - Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. | |
| 7:19 - For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: | |
| 7:20 - He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. | |
| 7:21 - With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. | |
| 7:22 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; | |
| 7:23 - Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. | |
| 7:24 - Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. | |
| 7:25 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. | |
| 7:26 - For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. | |
| 7:27 - Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. | |
| 9:13 - A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. | |
| 9:14 - For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, | |
| 9:15 - To call passengers who go right on their ways: | |
| 9:16 - Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, | |
| 9:17 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. | |
| 9:18 - But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. | |
| 22:14 - The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. | |
| 23:26 - My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. | |
| 23:27 - For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. | |
| 23:28 = She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. | |
| 27:13 - Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. | |
| 29:3 - Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance. | |
| 30:20 - Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. | |
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