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Proverbs 5
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1[My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words;
1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate:
3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4but afterwards thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.
5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7Now then, [my] son, hear me , and make not my words of none effect.
7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the merciless:
9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers;
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11and thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed,
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.
15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Let thy fountain of water be [truly] thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Let [thy] loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
19Let 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.
20Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly .
23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.