Proverbs 5:1-14 ▼

1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding:

2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4 But her latter end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol;

6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: her ways are unstable and she knoweth it not.

7 Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours be in the house of an alien;

11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

14 I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.