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My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my
understanding:
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That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may
keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and
her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
sword.
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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from
the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of
her house:
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours
[be] in the house of a stranger;
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed,
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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof;
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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
mine ear to them that instructed me!
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation
and assembly.
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters
out of thine own well.
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of
waters in the streets.
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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of
thy youth.
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[Let 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.
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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and
he pondereth all his goings.
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he
shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of
his folly he shall go astray.