5Proverbs 5

1My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:Select Proverbs 5:1

2That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. ¶Select Proverbs 5:2

3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:Select Proverbs 5:3

4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Select Proverbs 5:4

5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.Select Proverbs 5:5

6Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.Select Proverbs 5:6

7Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.Select Proverbs 5:7

8Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:Select Proverbs 5:8

9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:Select Proverbs 5:9

10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;Select Proverbs 5:10

11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,Select Proverbs 5:11

12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;Select Proverbs 5:12

13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!Select Proverbs 5:13

14I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly. ¶Select Proverbs 5:14

15Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.Select Proverbs 5:15

16Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.Select Proverbs 5:16

17Let them be only your own, and not strangers’ with you.Select Proverbs 5:17

18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.Select Proverbs 5:18

19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.Select Proverbs 5:19

20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?Select Proverbs 5:20

21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings. ¶Select Proverbs 5:21

22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.Select Proverbs 5:22

23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.Select Proverbs 5:23