| 001 | My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: |
| 002 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
| 003 | For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
| 004 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. |
| 005 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. |
| 006 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
| 007 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
| 008 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| 009 | Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
| 010 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
| 011 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
| 012 | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
| 013 | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
| 014 | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| 015 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. |
| 016 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
| 017 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
| 018 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
| 019 | Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. |
| 020 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
| 021 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. |
| 022 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
| 023 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |