Proverbs 5 — ULB

5Verse 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
incline your ears to my understanding,
^{Verse 2}so you may learn about discretion
and your lips may protect knowledge.
^{Verse 3}For the lips of an adulteress drip with honey
and her mouth is smoother than oil,
^{Verse 4}but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
cutting like a sharp sword.
^{Verse 5}Her feet go down to death;
her steps go all the way to Sheol.
^{Verse 6}She gives no thought to the path of life.
Her footsteps wander; she does not know where she is going.
^{Verse 7}Now, my sons, listen to me;
do not turn away from listening to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 8}Keep your path far away from her
and do not come near the door of her house.
^{Verse 9}In that way you will not give away your honor to others
or years of your life to a cruel person;
^{Verse 10}strangers will not feast on your wealth;
what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.
^{Verse 11}At the end of your life you will groan
when your flesh and your body waste away.
^{Verse 12}You will say, “How I hated instruction
and my heart despised correction!
^{Verse 13}I would not obey my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
^{Verse 14}I was almost completely ruined
in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.”
^{Verse 15}Drink water from your own cistern
and drink running water from your own well.
^{Verse 16}Should your springs overflow everywhere
and your streams of water flow in the public squares?
^{Verse 17}Let them be for yourself alone
and not for strangers with you.
^{Verse 18}May your fountain be blessed
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth,
^{Verse 19}for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe.
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
may you be continually intoxicated by her love.
^{Verse 20}For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress;
why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman?
^{Verse 21}Yahweh sees everything a person does
and watches all the paths he takes.
^{Verse 22}A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities;
the cords of his sin will hold him tight.
^{Verse 23}He will die because he lacks instruction;
he is led astray by his great foolishness.