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