Proverbs 5:1-14

¹My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear:

²That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

³For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;

⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a two-edged sword.

⁵Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world:

⁶So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.

⁷And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.

⁸Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house;

⁹That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel;

¹⁰That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien:

¹¹While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,

¹²And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;

¹³While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;

¹⁴But little more was wanting, and I had been in all kinds of unhappiness in the midst of the congregation and assembly.