| 5:1 | My son, attend to my wisdom, bow thy ear to my understanding: | |
| 5:2 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and thy lips may keep knowledge. | |
| 5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop a honey-comb, and her mouth 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 thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, thou canst not know . | |
| 5:7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | |
| 5:8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | |
| 5:9 | Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel: | |
| 5:10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors in the house of a stranger; | |
| 5:11 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy 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 midst of the congregation and assembly. | |
| 5:15 | Drink waters out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well. | |
| 5:16 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, rivers of waters in the streets. | |
| 5:17 | Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee. | |
| 5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | |
| 5:19 | the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. | |
| 5:20 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | |
| 5:21 | For the ways of man before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth 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. | |