Proverbs:5

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* My son , attend unto my wisdom , incline thine ear to my understanding ; * that thou mayest keep reflection , and that thy lips may preserve knowledge . * For the lips of the strange woman drop honey , 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 Sheol . * Lest she should ponder the path of life , her ways wander , she knoweth not [whither ]. * And now , children , hearken unto me , and depart not from the words of my mouth . * Remove thy way far from her , and come not nigh the door of her house : * lest thou give thine honour unto others , and thy years unto the cruel ; * lest strangers be filled with thy wealth , and the fruits of thy toil [come ] into the house of a stranger ; * and thou mourn in thine end , when thy flesh and thy body are consumed ; * and thou say , How have I hated instruction , and my heart despised reproof ! * and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers , nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me ; * I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly . * Drink waters out of thine own cistern , and running waters out of thine own well . * Thy fountains shall be poured forth , as water-brooks in the broadways . * Let them be only thine own , and not strangers ' with thee . * Let thy fountain be blessed ; and have joy of the wife of thy youth . * As a lovely hind and a graceful roe , let her breasts satisfy thee at all times : be thou ravished continually with her love . * And why shouldest thou , 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 Jehovah , and he pondereth all his paths . * His own iniquities shall take the wicked , and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin . * He shall die for want of discipline ; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray .

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