---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Proverbs from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 5
verse_count: 23
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Proverbs, chap. 5, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Proverbs 5

**1** My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding;
**2** That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
**3** For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
**4** But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
**5** Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
**6** Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst, not know them.
**7** Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of mv mouth.
**8** Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;
**9** Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
**10** Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger:
**11** And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
**12** And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
**13** And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
**14** I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
**15** Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
**16** Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
**17** Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
**18** Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
**19** Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
**20** And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
**21** For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
**22** His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
**23** He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.