5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 5:2 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 5:3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 5:4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 5:6 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. 5:7 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 5:8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 5:9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 5:10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 5:11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 5:12 and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 5:13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 5:14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation." 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 5:16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets 5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 5:19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 5:20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress 5:21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. 5:22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 5:23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.