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5My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
²That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
⁷Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
⁹Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.