Proverbs of Solomon 5
1 My son, attend to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding:
2 That you may heed my warnings, and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps are established in hell.
6 She does not consider the path of life; her ways are crooked, and she does not know them.
7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house;
9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel.
10 Lest strangers be satisfied with your power, and all your labors enter the house of a foreigner,
11 And you groan in the end, when your flesh and your body are consumed.
12 And you say, 'How I hated correction! And my heart despised reproof!
13 And I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to my instructors!
14 I was almost in every evil, in the midst of the congregation and in the crowd.
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running waters from your own well.
16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?
17 May they be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 Like a loving deer or a graceful gazelle, may her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be forever enticed by her love.
20 And why, my son, would you be enticed by a strange woman or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he makes all his paths smooth.
22 As for the wicked, his own iniquities will capture him, and he will be held captive by the cords of his sin.
23 He will die because he has acted unjustly, and through the abundance of his folly he will go astray.
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