## Proverbs Chapter 5

###### Proverbs 5:1
[Proverbs 5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:1)

בְּ֭נִי לְחׇכְמָתִ֣י הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה לִ֝תְבוּנָתִ֗י הַט־אׇזְנֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My son, attend to my wisdom, and bend thy ear to my understanding:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; give ear to my understanding,


###### Proverbs 5:2
[Proverbs 5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:2)

לִשְׁמֹ֥ר מְזִמּ֑וֹת וְ֝דַ֗עַת שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ יִנְצֹֽרוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
that thou mayst preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
To heed thoughts — and your lips will guard wisdom.


###### Proverbs 5:3
[Proverbs 5:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:3)

כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְחָלָ֖ק מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן חִכָּֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the lips of the strange woman [(heresy)] drip as a honeycomb, and her palate is smoother than oil.


###### Proverbs 5:4
[Proverbs 5:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:4)

וְֽ֭אַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָ֣ה כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑ה חַ֝דָּ֗ה כְּחֶ֣רֶב פִּיּֽוֹת׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
But her end is bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a two-edged sword.


###### Proverbs 5:5
[Proverbs 5:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:5)

רַ֭גְלֶיהָ יֹרְד֣וֹת מָ֑וֶת שְׁ֝א֗וֹל צְעָדֶ֥יהָ יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Her feet go down to death: her steps take hold of She᾽ol.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Her footpaths lead to death; her steps approach Sheol.


###### Proverbs 5:6
[Proverbs 5:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:6)

אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים פֶּן־תְּפַלֵּ֑ס נָע֥וּ מַ֝עְגְּלֹתֶ֗יהָ לֹ֣א תֵדָֽע׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
She is far from measuring her way of life; her paths wander, and she is ignorant.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Do not weigh the path of life [(i.e., which path to take) by the standards of "the strange woman," for] her paths terminate [in Sheol, and] you will not know [(to take heed until you have fallen there)].


###### Proverbs 5:7
[Proverbs 5:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:7)

וְעַתָּ֣ה בָ֭נִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִ֑י וְאַל־תָּ֝ס֗וּרוּ מֵאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And now, [my] sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.


###### Proverbs 5:8
[Proverbs 5:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:8)

הַרְחֵ֣ק מֵעָלֶ֣יהָ דַרְכֶּ֑ךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝קְרַ֗ב אֶל־פֶּ֥תַח בֵּיתָֽהּ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remove your ways far from her, and do not come close to the doors of her house.


###### Proverbs 5:9
[Proverbs 5:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:9)

פֶּן־תִּתֵּ֣ן לַאֲחֵרִ֣ים הוֹדֶ֑ךָ וּ֝שְׁנֹתֶ֗יךָ לְאַכְזָרִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
lest thou give thy vigour to others, and thy years to the cruel one:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Lest you give your glory to others, [i.e., lest you turn your heart to other gods)], and your [remaining] years to the cruel one [(the prince of Gehinnom)].


###### Proverbs 5:10
[Proverbs 5:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:10)

פֶּֽן־יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑ךָ וַ֝עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית נׇכְרִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours go to the house of a stranger:

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Lest strangers [(the prophets of the ba'al)] be sated with your strength [(the money they extort from you by their falsehoods)], and [the products of] your toil [be found] in the house of a strange [god].


###### Proverbs 5:11
[Proverbs 5:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:11)

וְנָהַמְתָּ֥ בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ בִּכְל֥וֹת בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗ וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and thou moan when thy end comes, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And you will make moan in your latter end, when your flesh and form fall away.


###### Proverbs 5:12
[Proverbs 5:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:12)

וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ אֵ֭יךְ שָׂנֵ֣אתִי מוּסָ֑ר וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת נָאַ֥ץ לִבִּֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And you will say: "How could I have hated mussar and my heart spurned rebuke?"


###### Proverbs 5:13
[Proverbs 5:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:13)

וְֽלֹא־שָׁ֭מַעְתִּי בְּק֣וֹל מוֹרָ֑י וְ֝לִֽמְלַמְּדַ֗י לֹא־הִטִּ֥יתִי אׇזְנִֽי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bent my ear to those who instructed me!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
"And [how could] I not have listened to the voice of my masters and not inclined my ear to my teachers?"


###### Proverbs 5:14
[Proverbs 5:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:14)

כִּ֭מְעַט הָיִ֣יתִי בְכׇל־רָ֑ע בְּת֖וֹךְ קָהָ֣ל וְעֵדָֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
"There is but a step between me and all evil [(Gehinnom)] in the midst of congregation and assembly."


###### Proverbs 5:15
[Proverbs 5:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:15)

שְׁתֵה־מַ֥יִם מִבּוֹרֶ֑ךָ וְ֝נֹזְלִ֗ים מִתּ֥וֹךְ בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Drink waters out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Drink [(gathered)] water from your pit [(the Torah of Moses)], and [(in consequence,)] flowing water from your well, [and, in consequence of that)],


###### Proverbs 5:16
[Proverbs 5:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:16)

יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ ח֑וּצָה בָּ֝רְחֹב֗וֹת פַּלְגֵי־מָֽיִם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
So will thy spring be dispersed abroad, and streams of water will flow in the broad places.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your springs will spread outwards [i.e., you will acquire many disciples]. In the thoroughfares [of the city] the streams of [your] waters will spread.


###### Proverbs 5:17
[Proverbs 5:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:17)

יִֽהְיוּ־לְךָ֥ לְבַדֶּ֑ךָ וְאֵ֖ין לְזָרִ֣ים אִתָּֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let them be only thy own, and not strangers’ with thee.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
They [(the waters)] will be yours alone, strangers not sharing them with you [(as opposed to 5:10), and, in consequence],


###### Proverbs 5:18
[Proverbs 5:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:18)

יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝שְׂמַ֗ח מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Your source will be blessed and you will rejoice in the wife of your youth [(i.e., in the Torah that you learned from your youth)].


###### Proverbs 5:19
[Proverbs 5:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:19)

אַיֶּ֥לֶת אֲהָבִ֗ים וְֽיַ֫עֲלַת־חֵ֥ן דַּ֭דֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ בְכׇל־עֵ֑ת בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A loving hind and a pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[She will be to you] a beloved hind, of excellent favor; her breasts will sate you at all times; in their love, you will stray always [(from your other affairs, and she will guard them for you)].


###### Proverbs 5:20
[Proverbs 5:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:20)

וְלָ֤מָּה תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה בְנִ֣י בְזָרָ֑ה וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק חֵ֣ק נׇכְרִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Why, then, my son, should you stray with a strange woman and embrace the lap of a woman who is foreign to you?


###### Proverbs 5:21
[Proverbs 5:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:21)

כִּ֤י נֹ֨כַח**׀** עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הֹוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִ֑ישׁ וְֽכׇל־מַעְגְּלֹתָ֥יו מְפַלֵּֽס׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his goings.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For before the eyes of the L-rd are the ways of a man, and He weighs all of his paths [(for transgression or merit)].


###### Proverbs 5:22
[Proverbs 5:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:22)

עֲֽווֹנֹתָ֗יו יִלְכְּדֻנ֥וֹ אֶת־הָרָשָׁ֑ע וּבְחַבְלֵ֥י חַ֝טָּאת֗וֹ יִתָּמֵֽךְ׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
His own iniquities shall trap the wicked man, and he shall be caught fast in the cords of his sins.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
The transgressions of the wicked one will entrap him, and he will be hoisted in the cords of his sin.


###### Proverbs 5:23
[Proverbs 5:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Proverbs/r/5:23)

ה֗וּא יָ֭מוּת בְּאֵ֣ין מוּסָ֑ר וּבְרֹ֖ב אִוַּלְתּ֣וֹ יִשְׁגֶּֽה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
He shall die for want of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
He will die for refusal of chastisement, and for the abundance of his foolishness in which he has strayed.