Proverbs:4-7

rsv@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;

rsv@Proverbs:4:2 @ for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.

rsv@Proverbs:4:3 @ When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

rsv@Proverbs:4:4 @ he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;

rsv@Proverbs:4:5 @ do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.

rsv@Proverbs:4:6 @ Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:7 @ The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

rsv@Proverbs:4:8 @ Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

rsv@Proverbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."

rsv@Proverbs:4:10 @ Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

rsv@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

rsv@Proverbs:4:12 @ When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:13 @ Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

rsv@Proverbs:4:14 @ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

rsv@Proverbs:4:15 @ Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

rsv@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

rsv@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

rsv@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:20 @ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

rsv@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

rsv@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.

rsv@Proverbs:4:24 @ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:26 @ Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.

rsv@Proverbs:4:27 @ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

rsv@Proverbs:5:1 @ My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:5:2 @ that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

rsv@Proverbs:5:4 @ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

rsv@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

rsv@Proverbs:5:6 @ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

rsv@Proverbs:5:7 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;

rsv@Proverbs:5:9 @ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;

rsv@Proverbs:5:10 @ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;

rsv@Proverbs:5:11 @ and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

rsv@Proverbs:5:12 @ and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

rsv@Proverbs:5:13 @ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

rsv@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."

rsv@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

rsv@Proverbs:5:16 @ Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

rsv@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

rsv@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

rsv@Proverbs:5:19 @ a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.

rsv@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

rsv@Proverbs:5:21 @ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.

rsv@Proverbs:5:22 @ The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

rsv@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

rsv@Proverbs:6:1 @ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;

rsv@Proverbs:6:2 @ if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;

rsv@Proverbs:6:3 @ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.

rsv@Proverbs:6:4 @ Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

rsv@Proverbs:6:5 @ save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

rsv@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

rsv@Proverbs:6:7 @ Without having any chief, officer or ruler,

rsv@Proverbs:6:8 @ she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.

rsv@Proverbs:6:9 @ How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

rsv@Proverbs:6:10 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

rsv@Proverbs:6:11 @ and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.

rsv@Proverbs:6:12 @ A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

rsv@Proverbs:6:13 @ winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,

rsv@Proverbs:6:14 @ with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

rsv@Proverbs:6:15 @ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

rsv@Proverbs:6:16 @ There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:

rsv@Proverbs:6:17 @ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

rsv@Proverbs:6:18 @ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

rsv@Proverbs:6:19 @ a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.

rsv@Proverbs:6:20 @ My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

rsv@Proverbs:6:21 @ Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.

rsv@Proverbs:6:22 @ When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

rsv@Proverbs:6:23 @ For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

rsv@Proverbs:6:24 @ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

rsv@Proverbs:6:25 @ Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

rsv@Proverbs:6:26 @ for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

rsv@Proverbs:6:27 @ Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

rsv@Proverbs:6:28 @ Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

rsv@Proverbs:6:29 @ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:6:30 @ Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?

rsv@Proverbs:6:31 @ And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.

rsv@Proverbs:6:32 @ He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

rsv@Proverbs:6:33 @ Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

rsv@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

rsv@Proverbs:6:35 @ He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.

rsv@Proverbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

rsv@Proverbs:7:2 @ keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

rsv@Proverbs:7:3 @ bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;

rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

rsv@Proverbs:7:6 @ For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,

rsv@Proverbs:7:7 @ and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,

rsv@Proverbs:7:8 @ passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

rsv@Proverbs:7:9 @ in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:7:10 @ And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:11 @ She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;

rsv@Proverbs:7:12 @ now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

rsv@Proverbs:7:13 @ She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

rsv@Proverbs:7:14 @ "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

rsv@Proverbs:7:15 @ so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

rsv@Proverbs:7:16 @ I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;

rsv@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

rsv@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

rsv@Proverbs:7:19 @ For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

rsv@Proverbs:7:20 @ he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."

rsv@Proverbs:7:21 @ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

rsv@Proverbs:7:22 @ All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

rsv@Proverbs:7:23 @ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

rsv@Proverbs:7:24 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

rsv@Proverbs:7:26 @ for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

rsv@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

rsv@Proverbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?

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