5:1  My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my
understanding:
 5:2  That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips
may keep knowledge.
 5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb,
and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
 5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
sword.
 5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
 5:6  Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
 5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from
the words of my mouth.
 5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door
of her house:
 5:9  Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years
unto the cruel:
 5:10  Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy
labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
 5:11  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body
are consumed,
 5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
 5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor
inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 5:14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the
congregation and assembly.
 5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running
waters out of thine own well.
 5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of
waters in the streets.
 5:17  Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with
thee.
 5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife
of thy youth.
 5:19  [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.
 5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
 5:21  For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD,
and he pondereth all his goings.
 5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he
shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
 5:23  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness
of his folly he shall go astray.