Proverbs 5:1-14 ▼

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear,

2 to keep discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

3 For the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey, and smoother than oil is her palate;

4 but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp with mouths as a sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lay hold of sheol.

6 The path of life she does not weigh; her tracks are unstable; she does not know it.

7 And now, sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

8 Keep your path far away from her, and do not go near to the opening of her house,

9 lest you give to others your splendor, and your years to a cruel one;

10 lest strangers be satisfied by your strength, and your labors be in the house of a foreigner;

11 and you groan at your end, in the consumption of your flesh and your body,

12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart spurned rebuke!

13 And I have not listened to the voice of my instructors, and I have not inclined my ear to those teaching me.

14 Am I as a little from all evil, in the midst of the assembly and the gathering.”