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Proverbs 5
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to
my prudence.
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve
instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping,
and her throat is smoother than oil.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged
sword.
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as
far as hell.
They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering,
and unaccountable.
Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from
the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors
of her house.
Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the
cruel.
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy
labours be in another man's house,
And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent
thy flesh and thy body, and say:
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented
not to reproof,
And have not heard the voice of them that taught me,
and have not in- dined my ear to masters?
I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the
church and of the congregation.
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams
of thy own well:
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets
divide thy waters.
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be
partakers with thee.
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of
thy youth:
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn:
let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou
delighted continually with her love.
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and
art cherished in the bosom of another ?
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth
all his steps.
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast
bound with the ropes of his own sins.
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction,
and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
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