Proverbs 5:7-14

[7] And now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
[8] Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house;
[9] lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless;
[10] lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of an alien;
[11] and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
[12] and you say, "How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
[13] I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
[14] I was at the point of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation." 

IMAGE: Gerard van Honthorst, The Procuress (1625)