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