{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro005.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro005.htm","text":"1\u00a0My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:\n \n2\u00a0That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.\n \n3\u00a0For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:\n \n4\u00a0But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.\n \n5\u00a0Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.\n \n6\u00a0Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.\n \n7\u00a0Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.\n \n8\u00a0Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:\n \n9\u00a0Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:\n \n10\u00a0Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;\n \n11\u00a0And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,\n \n12\u00a0And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;\n \n13\u00a0And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!\n \n14\u00a0I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.\n \n15\u00a0Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.\n \n16\u00a0Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.\n \n17\u00a0Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.\n \n18\u00a0Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.\n \n19\u00a0Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.\n \n20\u00a0And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?\n \n21\u00a0For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.\n \n22\u00a0His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.\n \n23\u00a0He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 5","type":"page"}