5:1–6 Attend now to my words, incline your ear to grasp my meaning. Express your thoughts with wisdom and your words with truth. Yet even then the sweet honey of desire will tempt you.44 Slippery as oil is the way of desire. Taste this honey and your lips swell with bitterness; follow this path and a double-edged desire will cleave you in two.45 The way of desire leads only to the grave; the path itself is death.46 Make no comparison between these two paths, for that legitimizes them both. Do not