5Proverbs 5

1My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,Select Proverbs 5:1

2To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.Select Proverbs 5:2

3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,Select Proverbs 5:3

4And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.Select Proverbs 5:4

5Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.Select Proverbs 5:5

6The path of life--lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths--thou knowest not.Select Proverbs 5:6

7And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.Select Proverbs 5:7

8Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,Select Proverbs 5:8

9Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,Select Proverbs 5:9

10Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,Select Proverbs 5:10

11And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,Select Proverbs 5:11

12And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,Select Proverbs 5:12

13And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.Select Proverbs 5:13

14As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.Select Proverbs 5:14

15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.Select Proverbs 5:15

16Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.Select Proverbs 5:16

17Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.Select Proverbs 5:17

18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,Select Proverbs 5:18

19A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.Select Proverbs 5:19

20And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?Select Proverbs 5:20

21For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.Select Proverbs 5:21

22His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.Select Proverbs 5:22

23He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!Select Proverbs 5:23