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aMy son, be attentive to my wisdom;
Incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov. 5
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That you may keep discretion,
And your lips may guard knowledge.
Prov. 5
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For the lips of a
1strange woman drip honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil;
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But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a
atwo-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death;
Her steps hold fast to Sheol.
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She does not make straight the path of life:
Her ways wander,
and she does not know
it.
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aAnd now,
my sons, listen to me,
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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5:8
Keep your way far from her,
And do not go near the door of her house;
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Lest you give your honor to others,
And your years to the cruel;
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Lest strangers be filled with your wealth,
And your labors
go to the house of a foreigner,
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And you mourn at your end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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And you say, How I have hated instruction,
And my heart has despised reproof!
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And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers
Nor inclined my ear to my instructors;
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I was almost into every evil
In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Drink waters out of your own cistern,
And running water out of your own well.
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Should your springs be shed forth,
Like streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be yours alone,
And not for strangers with you.
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5:18
Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the
awife of your youth,
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5:19
A lovely
ahind and a graceful doe.
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
May you be ravished with her love always.
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For why should you be ravished, my son, with a strange woman
And embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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For the ways of a man are before the
aeyes of Jehovah,
And He ponders all his paths.
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The wicked man is taken by his own iniquities,
And he is held fast by the cords of his own sin.
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He will die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
