“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.” (Proverbs 5:1-23
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