Proverbs 5 : 15

Proverbs 5

Verse: 1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

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Verse: 2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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Verse: 3

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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Verse: 4

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Verse: 5

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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Verse: 6

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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Verse: 7

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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Verse: 8

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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Verse: 9

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

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Verse: 10

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

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Verse: 11

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

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Verse: 12

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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Verse: 13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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Verse: 14

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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Verse: 15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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Verse: 16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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Verse: 17

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

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Verse: 18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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Verse: 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.

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Verse: 20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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Verse: 21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

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Verse: 22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

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Verse: 23

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.