| 章 |
| 5:1 |
My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
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| 5:2 |
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
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| 5:3 |
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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| 5:4 |
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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| 5:5 |
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
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| 5:6 |
Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
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| 5:7 |
And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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| 5:8 |
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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| 5:9 |
lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
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| 5:10 |
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
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| 5:11 |
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
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| 5:12 |
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
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| 5:13 |
and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
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| 5:14 |
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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| 5:15 |
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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| 5:16 |
Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
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| 5:17 |
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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| 5:18 |
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
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| 5:19 |
As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
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| 5:20 |
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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| 5:21 |
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
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| 5:22 |
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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| 5:23 |
He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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