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Proverbs 5

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¹My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: ²That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. ³For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: ⁴But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol; ⁶So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, andshe knoweth it not. ⁷Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house; ⁹Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien, ¹¹And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; ¹³Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! ¹⁴I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation. ¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? ¹⁷Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? ²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths. ²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. ²³He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.