Proverbs:5

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* My son , attend to my wisdom , and bow your ear to my understanding : * That you may regard discretion , and that your lips may keep knowledge . * For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb , and her mouth is smoother than oil : * But her end is bitter as wormwood , sharp as a two-edged sword . * Her feet go down to death ; her steps take hold on hell . * Lest you should ponder the path of life , her ways are moveable , that you can not know them . * Hear me now therefore , O you children , and depart not from the words of my mouth . * Remove your way far from her , and come not near the door of her house : * Lest you give your honor to others , and your years to the cruel : * Lest strangers be filled with your wealth ; and your labors be in the house of a stranger ; * And you mourn at the last , when your flesh and your body are consumed , * And say , How have I hated instruction , and my heart despised reproof ; * And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers , nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me ! * I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly . * Drink waters out of your own cistern , and running waters out of your own well . * Let your fountains be dispersed abroad , and rivers of waters in the streets . * Let them be only your own , and not strangers 'with you . * Let your fountain be blessed : and rejoice with the wife of your youth . * Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe ; let her breasts satisfy you at all times ; and be you ravished always with her love . * And why will you , my son , be ravished with a strange woman , and embrace the bosom of a stranger ? * For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD , and he ponders all his goings . * His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself , and he shall be held with the cords of his sins . * He shall die without instruction ; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray .

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