New International Reader's Version

Proverbs 5:13-22 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. I would not obey my teachers. I wouldn't listen to those who taught me.

14. I was almost totally destroyed. It happened right in front of the whole community."

15. Drink water from your own well. Drink running water from your own spring.

16. Should your springs pour out into the streets? Should your streams of water pour out in public places?

17. No! Let them belong to you alone. Never share them with strangers.

18. May your fountain be blessed. May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.

19. She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer. May her breasts always satisfy you. May you always be captured by her love.

20. My son, why be captured by a woman who commits adultery? Why hug the wife of another man?

21. The Lord watches a man's ways. He studies all of his paths.

22. A sinner is trapped by his own evil acts. He is held tight by the ropes of his sins.