Proverbs 5 — KJV

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