Scripture Context

Proverbs 4:27 - Proverbs 5:9

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 5
Intro: Solomon exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and chastity.

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 a 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 honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;