Proverbs 5:3-10

Lexham English Bible

³ For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey,
    and smoother than oil is her mouth.^[a]
4 But her end is bitter as the wormwood,
    sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death;
    her steps take hold of Sheol.^[b]
6 She does not observe^[c] the path of life;
    her ways wander, and she does not know it.

⁷ Now, O children, listen to me;
    do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.
⁸ Keep your paths far from her,
    and do not go near to the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your honor to the others,
    and your years to the merciless,
¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,