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.