Proverbs — Chapter 5
King James Version · 23 verses
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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.→