Beware of the adulteress
1My son, pay heed to my wisdom and listen to my insights; 2remember my counsel and let your lips not depart from this knowledge.
3Know that the lips of the adulteress are sweet as honey and her words smoother than oil, 4but the outcome is bitter as herbs. It is as sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to the grave and her steps lead to death. 6She pays no attention to the path of life and strays without knowing it.
7Now then, my son, listen to me and do not forget my words: 8Stay away from her and never approach the door of her house, 9lest you surrender your honor to strangers and your best years to cruel men, 10lest others benefit from your goods, and your earnings go to an alien house.
11You will complain in the end, when your body and flesh are already devoured and 12you will say, “Why did I reject instruction and turn my back on sound advice? 13Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers and follow their counsel? 14For I have come to the depths of disgrace in the midst of the whole community.”
15 ① Drink, then, from the water of your own cistern, from that which flows in your own well. 16Do not let your fountains be wasted elsewhere nor in the public streets. 17They are for you alone and not for strangers.
18May your fountainhead be blessed and may you find joy in the wife of your youth, 19your beautiful hind and graceful gazelle! May her breasts be your delight at all times: be always in love with her.
20My son, why be infatuated with an adulteress and embrace a strange woman? 21For Yahweh watches the ways of men and he observes all their paths.
22The wicked will be caught in his own evil and remain entangled in the nets of his own sin. 23He will die for want of discipline and will drown in the rising tide of his own evil.
- Pro 5,15 Drink, then, from the water of your own cistern. Let people be responsible first in their married life. This chapter deals with the consequences of licentiousness. It invites a man to value the intimacy of his marriage and after many years to be able to continue being the lover of his wife: be always in love with her. It is strange that today it is necessary to be reminded of such things in a society of abundance where infidelity is extolled as if it multiplied the possibilities of enjoyment and of finding oneself. The contempt for fidelity and the family is the first cause of death in a country: children become rare and selfishness is the law. The Bible knows that people only reach maturity by respecting a law and that sexual liberty only brings decline to a disenchanted heart.
