Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 5, 1-23

My son, be attentive to my wisdom;incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion,and your lips may guard knowledge.
³ For the lips of a forbidden^[a] woman drip honey,and her speech^[b] 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^[c] Sheol; ⁶ she does not ponder 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 othersand your years to the merciless, ¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 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 teachersor incline my ear to my instructors.  ¹⁴ I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”