Proverbs 5

¹My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:🔗🔍
²That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.🔗🔍
³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:🔗🔍
⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.🔗🔍
⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.🔗🔍
⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.🔗🔍
⁷Hear me now therefore, O ye children, 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:🔗🔍
¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;🔗🔍
¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,🔗🔍
¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;🔗🔍
¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!🔗🔍
¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.🔗🔍
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.🔗🔍
¹⁶Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.🔗🔍
¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.🔗🔍
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.🔗🔍
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.🔗🔍
²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?🔗🔍
²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.🔗🔍
²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.🔗🔍
²³He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.🔗🔍