1833 Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB)

Proverbs 5

1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom. 3 He sheweth the mischief of whoredom and riot. 15 He exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and charity. 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.

 5:1 ¶ My son, attend to my wisdom, [and] bow thy ear to my understanding:

 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

 5:3 ¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] a honey-comb, and her mouth [is] 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, [that] thou canst not know [them].

 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 [be] 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, [and] 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 [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.

 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 [are] 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.