Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, 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, 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 Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto 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 door of her house;
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto 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 the house of an alien;
Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19 A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
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 then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with 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 shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
