Proverbs 5:1
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
Proverbs 5:2
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
Proverbs 5:4
And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
Proverbs 5:5
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
Proverbs 5:6
The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.
Proverbs 5:7
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
Proverbs 5:9
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
Proverbs 5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
Proverbs 5:11
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
Proverbs 5:12
And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Proverbs 5:13
And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
Proverbs 5:14
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
Proverbs 5:17
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
Proverbs 5:19
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
Proverbs 5:20
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Proverbs 5:21
For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Proverbs 5:23
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!