Proverbs 5
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| v | JPS1917 |
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| 1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding; |
| 2 | That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
| 3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; |
| 4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. |
| 5 | Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on the nether-world; |
| 6 | Lest she should walk the even path of life, Her ways wander, but she knoweth it not. |
| 7 | Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth. |
| 8 | Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house; |
| 9 | Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, And thy years unto the cruel; |
| 10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labours be in the house of an alien; |
| 11 | And thou moan, when thine end cometh, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
| 12 | And say: ‘How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; |
| 13 | Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
| 14 | I was well nigh in all evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.’ |
| 15 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. |
| 16 | Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, And courses of water in the streets. |
| 17 | Let them be only thine own, And not strangers’with thee. |
| 18 | Let thy fountain be blessed; And have joy of the wife of thy youth. |
| 19 | A lovely hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; With her love be thou ravished always. |
| 20 | Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of an alien? |
| 21 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He maketh even all his paths. |
| 22 | His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. |
| 23 | He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall reel. |
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