Proverbs 5

1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,● 2That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.● 3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.● 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.● 5Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.● 6They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.● 7Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.● 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.● 9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.● 10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,● 11And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;● 12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,● 13And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?● 14I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.● 15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:● 16Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.● 17Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.● 18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:● 19Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.● 20Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?● 21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.● 22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.● 23He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.●