Proverbs 5
1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. (Sheol h7585)
6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
