Proverbs 5

King James Version

• 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 two-edged 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.

King James Version