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