Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat 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 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce 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.
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 art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
