Proverbs

¹MY SON, be attentive to my Wisdom [godly Wisdom learned by actual and costly experience], and incline your ear to my understanding [of what is becoming and prudent for you], ²That you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer [to temptation]. ³For the lips of a loose woman drip honey as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil; [Ezek. 20:30; Col. 2:8-10; II Pet. 2:14-17.] ⁴But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged and devouring sword. ⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead). ⁶She loses sight of and walks not in the path of life; her ways wind about aimlessly, and you cannot know them. ⁷Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.