Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear:
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;
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, it is 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 So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.
Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.
8 Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house;
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,
9 That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel;
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, 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 While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,
And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 But little more was wanting, and I had been in all [kinds of] unhappiness 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 water out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water;
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee.
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth, —
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19 The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually.
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 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
21 For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.
For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.
22 His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
23 He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
