The Proverbs 5

^1✦ My son attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding ⚑

^2✦ That thou mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep 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 twoedged sword ⚑

^5✦ Her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell ⚑

^6✦ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life her ways are moveable that thou canst not know them ⚑

^7✦ Hear me now therefore O ye children 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 wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger ⚑

^11✦ And thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed ⚑

^12✦ And say How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof ⚑

^13✦ And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me ⚑

^14✦ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly ⚑

^15✦ Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well ⚑

^16✦ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets ⚑

^17✦ Let them be only thine own and not st ngers’ with thee ⚑

^18✦ Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth ⚑

^19✦ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe let her breasts satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love ⚑

^20✦ And why wilt thou my son be ravished with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger ⚑

^21✦ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD and he pondereth all his goings ⚑

^22✦ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins ⚑

^23✦ He shall die without instruction and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray ⚑