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ASV Proverbs

Chapter 5

5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom;
Incline thine ear to my understanding:
5:2 That thou mayest preserve discretion,
And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil:
5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5 Her feet go down to death;
Her steps take hold on Sheol;
5:6 So that she findeth not the level path of life:
Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.
5:7 Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
And depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8 Remove thy way far from her,
And come not nigh the door of her house;
5:9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others,
And thy years unto the cruel;
5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
5:11 And thou mourn at thy latter end,
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction,
And my heart despised reproof;
5:13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
5:14 I was well-nigh in all evil
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
5:16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
5:17 Let them be for thyself alone,
And not for strangers with thee.
5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed;
And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
5:19 As a loving hind and a pleasant doe,
Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;
And be thou ravished always with her love.
5:20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he maketh level all his paths.
5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked,
And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction;
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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