Douay Bible - Proverbs Chapter 5

Proverbs 5:1
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.

Proverbs 5:2
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.

Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

Proverbs 5:6
They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Proverbs 5:9
Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.

Proverbs 5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man’s house,

Proverbs 5:11
And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:

Proverbs 5:12
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

Proverbs 5:13
And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not in- dined my ear to masters?

Proverbs 5:14
I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.

Proverbs 5:15
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:

Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

Proverbs 5:17
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Proverbs 5:18
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Proverbs 5:19
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.

Proverbs 5:20
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another ?

Proverbs 5:21
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Proverbs 5:23
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.