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5:1  My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
5:2  that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than 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 follow the path to Sheol;
5:6  she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
5:7  And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
5:9  lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
5:10  lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
5:11  and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
5:12  and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
5:13  I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
5:14  I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
5:16  Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
5:19  a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
5:20  Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
5:21  For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he watches all his paths.
5:22  The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
5:23  He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.