Good News Bible

Proverbs 5:9-15 Good News Bible (GNB)

9. If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.

10. Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.

11. You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,

12. and you will say, “Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

13. I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.

14. And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced.”

15. Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.