Proverbs 5 — KJVCP

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