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5:1  My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
5:2  That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
5:6  Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
5:7  Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
5:9  Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:
5:10  Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
5:11  And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
5:14  I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
5:15  Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
5:16  Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
5:17  Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
5:19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.
5:20  And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.
5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
5:23  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.