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