Proverbs 5

1My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:● 2That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.● 3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:● 4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.● 5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;● 6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, `and' she knoweth `it' not.● 7Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.● 8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;● 9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;● 10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors `be' in the house of an alien,● 11And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,● 12And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;● 13Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!● 14I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.● 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.● 16Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?● 17Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.● 18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.● 19`As' a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.● 20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?● 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.● 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.● 23He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.●