1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:⇆ compare2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.⇆ compare3For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:⇆ compare4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.⇆ compare5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.⇆ compare6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.⇆ compare7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.⇆ compare8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:⇆ compare9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:⇆ compare10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;⇆ compare11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,⇆ compare12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;⇆ compare13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!⇆ compare14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.⇆ compare15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.⇆ compare16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.⇆ compare17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.⇆ compare18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.⇆ compare19Let 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.⇆ compare20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?⇆ compare21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.⇆ compare22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.⇆ compare23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.⇆ compare