The Consequences of Ignoring Wisdom

Proverbs 5:7-14. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart

from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near

the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to

the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength and your labors go to the

house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen

to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in

the assembled congregation.”