5Proverbs 5

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

2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy 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 twoedged sword.Select Proverbs 5:4

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

6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.Select Proverbs 5:6

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

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

9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:Select Proverbs 5:9

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

11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy 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 mine ear to them that instructed me!Select Proverbs 5:13

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

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

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

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

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

19Let 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.Select Proverbs 5:19

20And why wilt thou, 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 pondereth all his goings.Select Proverbs 5:21

22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden 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