Bible, King James Version
Proverbs
Prov.5
[1] My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
understanding:
[2] That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips
may keep knowledge.
[3] For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil:
[4] But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
sword.
[5] Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on
hell.
[6] Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways
are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
[7] Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not
from the words of my mouth.
[8] Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the
door of her house:
[9] Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years
unto the cruel:
[10] Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy
labours be in the house of a stranger;
[11] And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy
body are consumed,
[12] And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
[13] And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
[14] I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
congregation and assembly.
[15] Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running
waters out of thine own well.
[16] Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of
waters in the streets.
[17] Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with
thee.
[18] Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the
wife of thy youth.
[19] 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.
[20] And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
[21] For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
and he pondereth all his goings.
[22] His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and
he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
[23] He shall die without instruction; and in the
greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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