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Proverbs 5


PROV 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

PROV 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

PROV 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

PROV 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

PROV 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.


PROV 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

PROV 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

PROV 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

PROV 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

PROV 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

PROV 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

PROV 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!


PROV 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

PROV 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

PROV 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.



PROV 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?



PROV 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.


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