Proverbs 5:4–14

4  But her end is gbitter as hwormwood,

fiSharp as a ktwoedged sword.

5  Her feet lgo down to death;

Her steps take hold on hell.

6  Lest thou shouldest mponder the path of life,

Her nways oare moveable, that pthou canst not know them.

7  qHear me now therefore, O ye children,

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 rcruel:

10  Lest strangers be filled with †thy wealth;

And thy slabours be in the house of a stranger;

11  And thou tmourn at the last,

When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

12  And say, How have I uhated instruction,

And my heart xdespised reproof;

13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,

Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

14  I was yalmost in all evil

In the midst of the congregation and assembly.