PR-5:1  My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my

understanding:

PR-5:2  That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips

may keep

knowledge.

PR-5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb,

and her mouth

[is] smoother than oil:

PR-5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged

sword.

PR-5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

PR-5:6  Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways

are moveable,

[that] thou canst not know [them].

PR-5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not

from the words of

my mouth.

PR-5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door

of her house:

PR-5:9  Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years

unto the cruel:

PR-5:10  Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy

labours [be] in the

house of a stranger;

PR-5:11  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body

are consumed,

PR-5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart

despised reproof;

PR-5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor

inclined mine ear

to them that instructed me!

PR-5:14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the

congregation and

assembly.

PR-5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running

waters out of

thine own well.

PR-5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of

waters in the

streets.

PR-5:17  Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with

thee.

PR-5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife

of thy youth.

PR-5:19  [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.

PR-5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange

woman, and

embrace the bosom of a stranger?

PR-5:21  For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD,

and he

pondereth all his goings.

PR-5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and

he shall be

holden with the cords of his sins.

PR-5:23  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness

of his folly

he shall go astray.

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