Proverbs 5
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 * .
