Proverbs 5:1-14 ▼

1 My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

2 That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

3 For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

4 But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

5 Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

6 She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

7 Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

8 Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

9 Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

10 Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

13 And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

14 I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.