Proverbs:5

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* My son , attend unto my wisdom , [and ] bow thine ear to my intelligence ; * that thou may keep council and [that ] thy lips may conserve knowledge . * For the lips of the strange [woman ] drop [as ] a honeycomb , and her mouth [is ] smoother than oil , * But her end is bitter as wormwood , sharp as a twoedged sword . * Her feet go down to death , her steps uphold Sheol , * lest thou should ponder the path of life , her ways are unstable ; thou shalt not know them . * Hear me now therefore , O ye sons , and do not depart from the words of my mouth . * Remove thy way far from her , and do not come near 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 thy labours [be ] in the house of a stranger , * and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed * and say , How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof * and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me , nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me ! * I have been in almost every [kind of ] evil , in the midst of society and of the congregation . * Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well . * Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad , [and ] rivers of [thy ] waters in the streets . * Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee . * Thy fountain shall be blessed ; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth . * [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 , [without eyes for anyone else ]. * And why wilt thou , my son , be ravished with a woman belonging to someone else , and embrace the bosom of a stranger ? * For the ways of man [are ] before the eyes of the LORD , and he weighs all his goings . * His [own ] iniquities shall take hold of the wicked , and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins . * He shall die because he did not submit to chastening ; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray .:

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