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5:1  My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
5:2  in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
5:4  but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
5:6  Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
5:7  So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
5:8  Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
5:9  lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
5:10  lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.
5:11  And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
5:12  And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
5:13  For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
5:14  I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
5:16  Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
5:17  Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
5:18  May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife--
5:19  a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
5:20  But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
5:21  For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths.
5:22  The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
5:23  He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.