Proverbs Chapter 5

5 : 1 My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding,

5 : 2 that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

5 : 3 For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.

5 : 4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 : 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,

5 : 6 so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know.

5 : 7 Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

5 : 8 Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

5 : 9 lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel,

5 : 10 lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien,

5 : 11 and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

5 : 12 and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

5 : 13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

5 : 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation.

5 : 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

5 : 16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?

5 : 17 Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

5 : 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

5 : 19 a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

5 : 20 For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

5 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he makes level all his paths.

5 : 22 His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

5 : 23 He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.