Proverbs 5

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,	1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
2 so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.	2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
3 For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.	3 For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
4 But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.	4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.	5 Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
6 They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.	6 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
7 Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.	7 Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.	8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
9 Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.	9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
10 Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,	10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
11 and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:	11 And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
12 “Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?	12 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
13 And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?	13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not indined my ear to masters?
14 I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”	14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
15 Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.	15 Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
16 Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.	16 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
17 Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.	17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
18 Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:	18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
19 a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.	19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.
20 Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?	20 Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another ?
21 The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.	21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
22 His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.	22 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
23 He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.	23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.