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Chapter 5
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My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to
my understanding: |
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That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips
may keep knowledge. |
3
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged
sword. |
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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. |
6
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways
are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not
from the words of my mouth. |
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the
door of her house: |
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years
unto the cruel: |
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours
be in the house of a stranger; |
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy
body are consumed, |
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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart
despised reproof; |
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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
mine ear to them that instructed me! |
14
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation
and assembly. |
15
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running
waters out of thine own well. |
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of
waters in the streets. |
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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with
thee. |
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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife
of thy youth. |
19
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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. |
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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange
woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
and he pondereth all his goings. |
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and
he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness
of his folly he shall go astray. |
