5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
Lend your ear to my understanding,

5:2  That you may preserve discretion,
And your lips may keep knowledge.

5:3  For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil;

5:4  But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

5:5  Her feet go down to death,
Her steps lay hold of hell.

5:6  Lest you ponder her path of life—
Her ways are unstable;
You do not know them.

5:7  Therefore hear me now, my children,
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.

5:8  Remove your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house,

5:9  Lest you give your honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one;

5:10  Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

5:11  And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,

5:12  And say:
' How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!

5:13  I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

5:14  I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

5:15  Drink water from your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.

5:16  Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?

5:17  Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.

5:18  Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.

5:19  As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be enraptured with her love.

5:20  For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
And He ponders all his paths.

5:22  His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

5:23  He shall die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.