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.]