ACV - Proverbs - 5

5:1  My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding,

5:2  that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

5:3  For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.

5:4  But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5:5  Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,

5:6  so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know.

5:7  Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

5:9  lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel,

5:10  lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien,

5:11  and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

5:12  and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

5:13  Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

5:14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation.

5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

5:16  Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?

5:17  Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

5:19  a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

5:20  For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he makes level all his paths.

5:22  His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

5:23  He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.