Proverbs:5-6
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My son ,
attend unto my wisdom ,
and bow thine ear to my understanding :
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That thou mayest regard discretion ,
and that thy lips may keep knowledge .
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb ,
and her mouth is smoother than oil :
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But her end is bitter as wormwood ,
sharp as a twoedged sword .
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Her feet go down to death ;
her steps take hold on hell .
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life ,
her ways are moveable ,
that thou canst not know them .
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Hear me now therefore ,
O ye children ,
and depart not from the words of my mouth .
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Remove thy way far from her ,
and come not nigh the door of her house :
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others ,
and thy years unto the cruel :
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth ;
and thy labours be in the house of a stranger ;
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And thou mourn at the last ,
when thy flesh and thy body are consumed ,
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And say ,
How have I hated instruction ,
and my heart despised reproof ;
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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers ,
nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me !
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly .
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern ,
and running waters out of thine own well .
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad ,
and rivers of waters in the streets .
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Let them be only thine own ,
and not strangers '
with thee .
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Let thy fountain be blessed :
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth .
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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 .
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And why wilt thou ,
my son ,
be ravished with a strange woman ,
and embrace the bosom of a stranger ?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD ,
and he pondereth all his goings .
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself ,
and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins .
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He shall die without instruction ;
and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray .
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My son ,
if thou be surety for thy friend ,
if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger ,
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Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth ,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth .
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Do this now ,
my son ,
and deliver thyself ,
when thou art come into the hand of thy friend ;
go ,
humble thyself ,
and make sure thy friend .
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Give not sleep to thine eyes ,
nor slumber to thine eyelids .
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Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter ,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler .
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Go to the ant ,
thou sluggard ;
consider her ways ,
and be wise :
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Which having no guide ,
overseer ,
or ruler ,
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Provideth her meat in the summer ,
and gathereth her food in the harvest .
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How long wilt thou sleep ,
O sluggard ?
when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ?
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Yet a little sleep ,
a little slumber ,
a little folding of the hands to sleep :
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ,
and thy want as an armed man .
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A naughty person ,
a wicked man ,
walketh with a froward mouth .
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He winketh with his eyes ,
he speaketh with his feet ,
he teacheth with his fingers ;
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Frowardness is in his heart ,
he deviseth mischief continually ;
he soweth discord .
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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly ;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy .
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These six things doth the LORD hate :
yea ,
seven are an abomination unto him :
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A proud look ,
a lying tongue ,
and hands that shed innocent blood ,
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An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations ,
feet that be swift in running to mischief ,
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A false witness that speaketh lies ,
and he that soweth discord among brethren .
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My son ,
keep thy father '
s commandment ,
and forsake not the law of thy mother :
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Bind them continually upon thine heart ,
and tie them about thy neck .
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When thou goest ,
it shall lead thee ;
when thou sleepest ,
it shall keep thee ;
and when thou awakest ,
it shall talk with thee .
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For the commandment is a lamp ;
and the law is light ;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life :
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To keep thee from the evil woman ,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman .
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Lust not after her beauty in thine heart ;
neither let her take thee with her eyelids .
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For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread :
and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life .
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Can a man take fire in his bosom ,
and his clothes not be burned ?
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Can one go upon hot coals ,
and his feet not be burned ?
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So he that goeth in to his neighbour '
s wife ;
whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent .
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Men do not despise a thief ,
if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry ;
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But if he be found ,
he shall restore sevenfold ;
he shall give all the substance of his house .
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But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding :
he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul .
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A wound and dishonour shall he get ;
and his reproach shall not be wiped away .
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For jealousy is the rage of a man :
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance .
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He will not regard any ransom ;
neither will he rest content ,
though thou givest many gifts .
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My son ,
keep my words ,
and lay up my commandments with thee .
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