Proverbs 5:11-23 ▼

11 And you have remorse in your old age, when the flesh of your body is consumed,

12 And you say, Why did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproof,

13 And why have I not obeyed the voice of my teacher, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me?

14 I was in almost all kinds of evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

15 Drink water out of your own well, and running water from your own spring.

16 Let your water overflow into your streets, let it be disbursed abroad.

17 Let it be for yourself alone, let not strangers be partners with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 Let her be like a loving hind, and pleasant mountain roe; learn her ways always, and be mindful of her love.

20 My son, be not misled by a strange woman, neither embrace the bosom of a strange woman.

21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and all his paths lie open in his presence.

22 The wicked shall be caught by his own iniquities, and he will be bound with the cords of his sins.

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