Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 5

5:1  My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

5:2  That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

5:3  For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

5:4  But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

5:5  Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

5:6  She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

5:7  Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

5:8  Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

5:9  Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

5:10  Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

5:11  And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

5:12  And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

5:13  And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

5:14  I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

5:15  Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

5:16  Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

5:17  But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

5:18  Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

5:19  Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

5:20  For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

5:21  For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.

5:22  His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.

5:23  Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.