Proverbs 5

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