M<\/span>y son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Let 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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.<\/span> <\/p>\n