Pr 5 (King James)

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
² That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
³ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
⁶ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
⁷ Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
⁹ Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
¹¹ And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
¹³ And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
¹⁶ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹ Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
²⁰ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
²² His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Pr 5 (Vulgate)

¹ [Fili mi, attende ad sapientiam meam, et prudentiæ meæ inclina aurem tuam :
² ut custodias cogitationes, et disciplinam labia tua conservent. Ne attendas fallaciæ mulieris ;
³ favus enim distillans labia meretricis, et nitidius oleo guttur ejus :
⁴ novissima autem illius amara quasi absinthium, et acuta quasi gladius biceps.
⁵ Pedes ejus descendunt in mortem, et ad inferos gressus illius penetrant.
⁶ Per semitam vitæ non ambulant ; vagi sunt gressus ejus et investigabiles.
⁷ Nunc ergo fili mi, audi me, et ne recedas a verbis oris mei.
⁸ Longe fac ab ea viam tuam, et ne appropinques foribus domus ejus.
⁹ Ne des alienis honorem tuum, et annos tuos crudeli :
¹⁰ ne forte impleantur extranei viribus tuis, et labores tui sint in domo aliena,
¹¹ et gemas in novissimis, quando consumpseris carnes tuas et corpus tuum, et dicas :
¹² Cur detestatus sum disciplinam, et increpationibus non acquievit cor meum,
¹³ nec audivi vocem docentium me, et magistris non inclinavi aurem meam ?
¹⁴ pene fui in omni malo, in medio ecclesiæ et synagogæ.
¹⁵ Bibe aquam de cisterna tua, et fluenta putei tui ;
¹⁶ deriventur fontes tui foras, et in plateis aquas tuas divide.
¹⁷ Habeto eas solus, nec sint alieni participes tui.
¹⁸ Sit vena tua benedicta, et lætare cum muliere adolescentiæ tuæ.
¹⁹ Cerva carissima, et gratissimus hinnulus : ubera ejus inebrient te in omni tempore ; in amore ejus delectare jugiter.
²⁰ Quare seduceris, fili mi, ab aliena, et foveris in sinu alterius ?
²¹ Respicit Dominus vias hominis, et omnes gressus ejus considerat.
²² Iniquitates suas capiunt impium, et funibus peccatorum suorum constringitur.
²³ Ipse morietur, quia non habuit disciplinam, et in multitudine stultitiæ suæ decipietur.]