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Prov.|5:1|-||a|My son, be attentive to my wisdom;Incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov.|5:2|-|That you may keep discretion,And your lips may guard knowledge.
Prov.|5:3|-|For the lips of a |1|strange woman drip honey,And her mouth is smoother than oil;
Prov.|5:4|-|But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,Sharp as a |a|two-edged sword.
Prov.|5:5|-|Her feet go down to death;Her steps hold fast to Sheol.
Prov.|5:6|-|She does not make straight the path of life:Her ways wander, and she does not know it.
Prov.|5:7|-||a|And now, my sons, listen to me,And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Prov.|5:8|-|Keep your way far from her,And do not go near the door of her house;
Prov.|5:9|-|Lest you give your honor to others,And your years to the cruel;
Prov.|5:10|-|Lest strangers be filled with your wealth,And your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Prov.|5:11|-|And you mourn at your end,When your flesh and your body are consumed,
Prov.|5:12|-|And you say, How I have hated instruction,And my heart has despised reproof!
Prov.|5:13|-|And I have not listened to the voice of my teachersNor inclined my ear to my instructors;
Prov.|5:14|-|I was almost into every evilIn the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Prov.|5:15|-|Drink waters out of your own cistern,And running water out of your own well.
Prov.|5:16|-|Should your springs be shed forth,Like streams of water in the streets?
Prov.|5:17|-|Let them be yours alone,And not for strangers with you.
Prov.|5:18|-|Let your fountain be blessed,And rejoice in the |a|wife of your youth,
Prov.|5:19|-|A lovely |a|hind and a graceful doe.Let her breasts satisfy you at all times.
May you be ravished with her love always.
Prov.|5:20|-|For why should you be ravished, my son, with a strange womanAnd embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Prov.|5:21|-|For the ways of a man are before the |a|eyes of Jehovah,And He ponders all his paths.
Prov.|5:22|-|The wicked man is taken by his own iniquities,And he is held fast by the cords of his own sin.
Prov.|5:23|-|He will die for lack of instruction,And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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