Proverbs 5
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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 an honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a twoedged 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 my
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.
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible,
King James Version of 1611
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