King James 2000

Proverbs 5:3-16 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

3. For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, 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 you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.

7. Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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

9. Lest you give your honor unto others, and your years unto the merciless:

10. Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

11. And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

12. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

13. And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

14. I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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

16. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets?