# Proverbs 5 (New King James Version)
The Peril of Adultery

##### Chapter 5
###### 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;  
Lend your ear to my understanding,  

###### 2 That you may preserve discretion,  
And your lips may keep knowledge.  

###### 3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,  
And her mouth _is_ smoother than oil;  

###### 4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,  
Sharp as a two-edged sword.  

###### 5 Her feet go down to death,  
Her steps lay hold of hell.  

###### 6 Lest you ponder _her_ path of life--  
Her ways are unstable;  
You do not know _them._

###### 7 Therefore hear me now, _my_ children,  
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.  

###### 8 Remove your way far from her,  
And do not go near the door of her house,  

###### 9 Lest you give your honor to others,  
And your years to the cruel _one;_  

###### 10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,  
And your labors _go_ to the house of a foreigner;  

###### 11 And you mourn at last,  
When your flesh and your body are consumed,  

###### 12 And say:  
"How I have hated instruction,  
And my heart despised correction!  

###### 13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,  
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!  

###### 14 I was on the verge of total ruin,  
In the midst of the assembly and congregation."

###### 15 Drink water from your own cistern,  
And running water from your own well.  

###### 16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,  
Streams of water in the streets?  

###### 17 Let them be only your own,  
And not for strangers with you.  

###### 18 Let your fountain be blessed,  
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.  

###### 19 _As a_ loving deer and a graceful doe,  
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;  
And always be enraptured with her love.  

###### 20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,  
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

###### 21 For the ways of man _are_ before the eyes of the Lord,  
And He ponders all his paths.  

###### 22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked _man,_  
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.  

###### 23 He shall die for lack of instruction,  
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.