Proverbs 5:1-14

1. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

2. 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

3. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4. 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

7. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

8. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

9. 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

10. 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

11. 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12. 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

13. 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

14. 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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