Proverbs 5:1-14

Proverbs 5:1-14

[1] My son,  attend  unto my wisdom,  and bow  thine ear  to my understanding:  [2] That thou mayest regard  discretion,  and that thy lips  may keep  knowledge.  [3] For the lips  of a strange woman  drop  as an honeycomb,  and her mouth  is smoother  than oil:  [4] But her end  is bitter  as wormwood,  sharp  as a twoedged  sword.  [5] Her feet  go down  to death;  her steps  take hold  on hell.  [6] Lest thou shouldest ponder  the path  of life,  her ways  are moveable,  that thou canst not know  them. [7] Hear  me now therefore, O ye children,  and depart  not from the words  of my mouth.  [8] thy way  far  from her, and come not nigh  the door  of her house:  [9] Lest thou give  thine honour  unto others,  and thy years  unto the cruel:  [10] Lest strangers  be filled  with thy wealth;  and thy labours  be in the house  of a stranger;  [11] And thou mourn  at the last,  when thy flesh  and thy body  are consumed,  [12] And say,  How have I hated  instruction,  and my heart  despised  reproof;  [13] And have not obeyed  the voice  of my teachers,  nor inclined  mine ear  to them that instructed  [14] I was almost  in all evil  in the midst  of the congregation  and assembly.