Proverbs 5 — FBV

5My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen carefully as I explain what makes sense,²so you can make good decisions and protect knowledge with your lips.⁺³For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,⁴but in the end what you get from her is the bitterness of wormwood and the sharp pain of being cut with a two-edged sword.⁵She leads you down to death; she takes you down to the grave.⁶She doesn't follow the path that leads to life—she wanders away and doesn't even know she's lost.⁷Now, my son,⁺listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.⁸Stay far away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!⁹Otherwise you'll surrender your honor to others, and your character to cruel people.¹⁰Strangers will spend your wealth; everything you've worked for will go to someone else.¹¹When you come to the end of your life you'll moan in pain as disease destroys your body.¹²You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!¹³I didn't listen to what my teacher said. I didn't pay attention to my instructors.¹⁴Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.⁺¹⁶Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?¹⁷Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.¹⁸May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.¹⁹May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.²⁰Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?²¹For the Lord sees everything people do, the Lord investigates everywhere they go.²²The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.²³They will die because they lack self-control, lost because of their great stupidity.