Proverbs 5:5-20

⁵She leads you down to death; she takes you down to the grave.

⁶She doesn't follow the path that leads to life—she wanders away and doesn't even know she's lost.

⁷Now, my son, listen to me; don't reject what I have taught you.

⁸Stay far away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!

⁹Otherwise you'll surrender your honor to others, and your character to cruel people.

¹⁰Strangers will spend your wealth; everything you've worked for will go to someone else.

¹¹When you come to the end of your life you'll moan in pain as disease destroys your body.

¹²You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!

¹³I didn't listen to what my teacher said. I didn't pay attention to my instructors.

¹⁴Now I'm on the verge of being completely disgraced before everyone in the community.”

¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

¹⁶Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?

¹⁷Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.

¹⁸May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.

¹⁹May she be to you a loving deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts always be intoxicating to you; may you be drunk on her love forever.

²⁰Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?