Proverbs 5:1-11

¹My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply your ear to my words;

²that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;

³for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases your palate:

⁴but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.

⁵For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.

⁶For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.

⁷Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.

⁸Remove your way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

⁹lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless:

¹⁰lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labours come into the houses of strangers;

¹¹And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,