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