Proverbs:5:3-22
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.
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