Proverbs 5:1-14 - Avoid Seduction

¹ My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear; ² [in order] to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips. ³ For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth. ⁴ But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol. ⁶ She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it].

⁷ Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house, ⁹ lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless, ¹⁰ lest strangers take [their] fill of your strength, and your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner, ¹¹ and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹² and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!" ¹³ and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors! ¹⁴ I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation."