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| [1]My son, hearken unto my wisdom, and incline thine ear unto my knowledge. |
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| [2]That thou mayest regard counsel, and thy lips observe knowledge. |
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| [3]For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is more soft than oil. |
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| [4]But the end of her is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two edged sword. |
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| [5]Her feet go down to death, and her steps take hold on hell. |
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| [6]She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moveable: thou canst not know them. |
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| [7]Hear ye me now therefore, O children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
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| [8]Keep thy way far from her, and come not near the door of her house, |
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| [9]Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years to the cruel: |
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| [10]Lest the stranger should be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger, |
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| [11]And thou mourn at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy body) |
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| [12]And say, How have I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction! |
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| [13]And have not obeyed the voice of them that taught me, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
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| [14]I was almost brought into all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
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| [15]Drink the water of thy cistern, and of the rivers out of the midst of thine own well. |
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| [16]Let thy fountains flow forth, and the rivers of waters in the streets. |
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| [17]But let them be thine, even thine only, and not the strangers with thee. |
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| [18]Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
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| [19]Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe: let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and delight in her love continually. |
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| [20]For why shouldest thou delight, my son, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
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| [21]For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his paths. |
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| [22]His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall beholden with the cords of his own sin. |
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| [23]He shall die for fault of instruction, and shall go astray through his great folly. |
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