Proverbs 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

She does not keep straight to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

She loses sight of and walks not in the path of life; her ways wind about aimlessly, and you cannot know them.

American Standard Version (1901)

So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.

Common English Bible

She doesn’t stay on the way of life. Her paths wander, but she doesn’t know it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Proverbs 5:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:59

When I think of your ways, I turn my feet to your decrees;

Psalm 16:11

You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Proverbs 2:19

those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Proverbs 4:26

Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Proverbs 5:21

For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord, and he examines all their paths.

Proverbs 9:13

The foolish woman is loud; she is ignorant and knows nothing.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!