**Proverbs 5:3-22 - Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)**
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<3> For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. <4> But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. <5> Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell. <6> They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable. <7> Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. <8> Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house. <9> Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel. <10> Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house, <11> And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say: <12> Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, <13> And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters? <14> I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation. <15> Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: <16> Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. <17> Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee. <18> Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: <19> Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love. <20> Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another? <21> The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps. <22> His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. ```
