Proverbs Chapter 5 (KJV)
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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 an 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | |
10. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | |
11. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | |
12. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | |
13. And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | |
14. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | |
15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | |
16. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | |
17. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | |
18. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | |
19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. | |
20. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | |
21. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. | |
22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | |
23. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
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