Proverbs 5
- My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
- That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
- For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
- But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
- They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
- Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
- Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
- Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
- And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
- Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
- And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
- I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
- Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
- Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
- Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
- Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
- Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; be thou delighted continually with her love.
- Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
- The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
- His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
- He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.