# Proverbs 5 [[Proverbs 4|←]] • [[Proverbs 6|→]] --- ### 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, bow thine ear to my understanding: ### 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and thy lips may keep knowledge. ### 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop an honeycomb, and her mouth 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, thou canst not know ### 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 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, 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 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 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.