Proverbs - Chapter 5 - King James 2000
- My son, be attentive to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:
- That you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
- For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a 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 sheol.
- Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, 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 unto others, and your years unto the merciless:
- Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
- 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 utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
- Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
- Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets?
- Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.
- Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
- Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
- And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
- For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
- His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
- He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.