International Children’s Bible

Proverbs 5:7-14 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

7. Now, my sons, listen to me.Don’t ignore what I say.

8. Stay away from such a woman.Don’t even go near the door of her house.

9. If you do, you will give your riches to others.And the best years of your life will be given to someone who is cruel.

10. Strangers will enjoy your wealth.And what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.

11. You will groan at the end of your life.Then your health will be gone.

12. Then you will say, “I hated self-control!I would not listen when I was corrected!

13. I would not listen to my teachers.I paid no attention to what they taught me.

14. I have come very close to being completely ruinedin front of a whole group of people.”