Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend to my wisdom. And bow thine ear to my understanding;
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
2 That thou mayest keep discretion, And that thy lips may preserve knowledge!
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
3 Truly, 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 That she may not ponder the way of life, Her paths waver when she heedeth it not.
She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
7 Hear me now, therefore, O children! And turn not away 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 bloom to others, And thy years to a cruel one;
Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, And thine earnings 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 lest thou mourn in thy latter end. 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 how hath my heart despised reproof!
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to my instructors;
And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 I have well-nigh fallen into utter misery; In the midst of the congregation and the assembly.”
I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Drink water out of thine own cistern. And running water out of thine own well:
Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
16 So shall thy fountains overflow in the streets, In the wide streets, as streams of water;
Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
17 They shall belong to thee alone, And not to strangers with thee;
But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.
18 And thy fountain shall be blessed, Yea, thou shalt have joy in the wife of thy youth.
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
19 A lovely hind, a graceful doe, Her breasts shall satisfy thee at all times, And thou shalt be always ravished 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, then, my son, wilt thou be ravished with a wanton, And embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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 weigheth well 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; Yea, he shall be held fast by the cords 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 for want of instruction; Yea, through the greatness of his folly he shall stagger.
Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.
