Proverbs 5:6-21

⁶The path of life — lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths — thou knowest not.

⁷And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

⁸Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

⁹Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

¹¹And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

¹²And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

¹³And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

¹⁴As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

¹⁶Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

¹⁷Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

¹⁹A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²⁰And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

²¹For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.