Proverbs 5

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,	1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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 mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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 strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth 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, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.	5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.	6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.	7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, 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 door of her house:
9 Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.	9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto 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 wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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 at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 “Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?	12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised 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 obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”	14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.	15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.	16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.	17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:	18 Let thy fountain 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 as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always 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 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.	21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.	22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his 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 without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.