AFV2020 - Proverbs - 5

5:1  My son, attend to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding;

5:2  That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.

5:3  For the lips of a wanton woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

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

5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the grave.

5:6  She does not ponder the path of life; her ways are unstable—you cannot know them.

5:7  Now therefore hear me, O you children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

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

5:9  Lest you give your honor unto others and your years unto the cruel;

5:10  Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

5:11  And you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

5:12  And say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

5:13  And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ears to those who taught me!

5:14  I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly."

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

5:16  Let your fountains be dispersed abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

5:17  Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

5:18  Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

5:19  Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

5:20  For why will you, 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 ponders all his paths.

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

5:23  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall breathe his last.