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