Proverbs - Chapter 5 - American King James Version
- My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
- That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
- For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
- Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
- Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
- Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:
- Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
- And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
- I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
- Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
- Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
- Let them be only your own, and not strangers'with you.
- Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
- Let 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.
- And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.
- His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
- He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.