Darby Translation 1890

Proverbs 5:3-15 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

3. For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

4. but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.

6. Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither.

7. And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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

9. lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;

10. lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;

11. and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;

12. and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

13. and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;

14. I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.