Proverbs 5:1-14 ▼

1 MY son, attend to my wisdom and incline your ear to my understanding,

2 That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.

3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her words are smoother than oil;

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

5 Her feet cause men to go down to death; her steps take her to Sheol.

6 She does not tread upon the land of the living, her paths are devious, and are unknown.

7 Hear me now therefore, O you children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house;

9 Lest you give your strength to others, and your years to the cruel;

10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of strangers;

11 And you have remorse in your old age, when the flesh of your body is consumed,

12 And you say, Why did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproof,

13 And why have I not obeyed the voice of my teacher, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me?

14 I was in almost all kinds of evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.