Proverbs 5:4-22

⁴but the last things of her be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.

⁵Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells or to hell.

⁶Those or they go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.

⁷Now therefore, my son, hear thou me, and go thou not away from the words of my mouth.

⁸Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.

⁹Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;

¹⁰lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;

¹¹and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;

¹²and say, Why loathed I teaching, and mine heart assented not to blamings;

¹³neither I heard the voice of men teaching me, and I bowed not down mine ear to masters?

¹⁴Almost I was in all-evil, in the midst of the church, and of the synagogue.

¹⁵Drink thou water of thy cistern, and the floods of thy well.

¹⁶Thy wells be streamed forth; and part thy waters in streets.

¹⁷Have thou alone them or them alone; and aliens be not thy partners.

¹⁸Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.

¹⁹An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.

²⁰My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?

²¹The Lord seeth the ways of a man; and he beholdeth all his steps.

²²The wickednesses of a wicked man take him; and he is bound with the ropes of his sins.