chapter_Proverbs_5
Proverbs 5:1: My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, Proverbs 5:2: To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. Proverbs 5:3: For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, Proverbs 5:4: And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. Proverbs 5:5: Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. Proverbs 5:6: The path of life &#8212; lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths &#8212; thou knowest not. Proverbs 5:7: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. Proverbs 5:8: Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, Proverbs 5:9: Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, Proverbs 5:10: Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, Proverbs 5:11: And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, Proverbs 5:12: And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, Proverbs 5:13: And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. Proverbs 5:14: As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company. Proverbs 5:15: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. Proverbs 5:16: Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. Proverbs 5:17: Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. Proverbs 5:18: Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, Proverbs 5:19: A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. Proverbs 5:20: And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? Proverbs 5:21: For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. Proverbs 5:22: His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. Proverbs 5:23: He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
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