Prov 5
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My son, attend to my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding:
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That you may preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
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But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
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So that she finds not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knows
[it] not.
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Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken to me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove your way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
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Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel;
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Lest strangers be filled with your strength, And your labors [be] in the house of
an alien,
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And you mourn at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
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Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that
instructed me!
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I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
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Drink waters out of your own cistern, And running waters out of your own well.
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Should your springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for yourself alone, And not for strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And
be you ravished always with her love.
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For why should you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the
bosom of a foreigner?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of YHWH; And he makes level all his paths.
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of
his sin.
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He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go
astray.