Proverbs 5:3-13

Leeser(i) 3 For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world: 6 So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not. 7 And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth. 8 Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house; 9 That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel; 10 That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien: 11 While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end, 12 And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof; 13 While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;