Proverbs 5

¹My child, be attentive to my wisdom,

²in order to keep prudence,

³For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey,

⁴But her end is bitter as the wormwood,

⁵Her feet go down to death;

⁶She does not observe the path of life;[#Or “examine, weigh”]

Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom

⁷Now, O children, listen to me;

⁸Keep your paths far from her,

⁹lest you give your honor to the others,

¹⁰lest strangers take their fill of your strength,

¹¹and you groan at your end,

¹²and say “How I hated discipline,

¹³and “I did not listen to the voice of my teachers,

¹⁴I was almost at utter ruin[#Or “all, every, whole”; #Or “evil”]

¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern

¹⁶Shall your springs be scattered outward?

¹⁷May they be yours alone,

¹⁸May your fountain be blessed,

¹⁹She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;

²⁰Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,

²¹For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,[#Literally “the ways of man/humankind”]

²²His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer,

²³He shall die for lack of discipline,[#Literally “with there is no”]