Proverbs 5:4-18

⁴but afterwards thou wilt 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 thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

⁹lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the merciless:

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

¹¹and thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed,

¹²and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

¹³I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.

¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.

¹⁶Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.

¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.