Proverbs 5:8-20

JuliaSmith(i) 8 Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house: 9 Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel: 10 Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers; 11 And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness, 12 And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs 13 And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me. 14 As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly. 15 Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well. 16 Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters. 17 They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee. 18 Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth. 19 The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves. 20 And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?