      | ¶ | My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding: | |
| That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy 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 twoedged sword. | ||
| Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | ||
| Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. | ||
| ¶ | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | |
| Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | ||
| Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | ||
| Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; | ||
| And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy 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 mine ear to them that instructed me! | ||
| I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | ||
| ¶ | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | |
| Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets. | ||
| Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | ||
| Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | ||
| [Let 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. | ||
| And why wilt thou, 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 pondereth all his goings. | ||
| His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | ||
| He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
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Proverbs - Chapter 5
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