Proverbios 5

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence. ² That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. ³ For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell. ⁶ They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable. ⁷ Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house. ⁹ Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel. ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house, ¹¹ And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say: ¹² Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, ¹³ And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters? ¹⁴ I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation. ¹⁵ Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. ¹⁷ Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love. ²⁰ Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another? ²¹ The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps. ²² His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. ²³ He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.