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¹ My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;² that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.³ For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;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 follow the path to Sheol;⁶ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.⁷ And now, O 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 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;¹¹ and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,¹² and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!¹³ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.¹⁴ I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.¹⁶ Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?¹⁷ Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,¹⁹ a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.²⁰ Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?²¹ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.²² The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.²³ He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.