Proverbs 5:1-14 - Avoid Seduction

¹ My son, give attention to my wisdom,
Incline your ear to my understanding;
² That you may observe discretion
And your lips may reserve knowledge.
³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;
⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol.
⁶ She does not ponder the path of life;
Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.

⁷ Now then, my sons, listen to me
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
⁸ Keep your way far from her
And do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ Or you will give your vigor to others
And your years to the cruel one;
¹⁰ And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
¹¹ And you groan at your final end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;
¹² And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!
¹³ “I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to my instructors!
¹⁴ “I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”