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Chapter 5 |
| 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.
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| 6 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that
thou canst not know them. |
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7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children,
and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
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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, |
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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. |
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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. |
