Proverbs 5:1
My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline thine ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 5:2
that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 5:4
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,
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so that she does not find the level path of life. Her ways are unstable, and she does not know.
Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
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lest thou give thine honor to others, and thy years to the cruel,
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lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors be in the house of an alien,
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and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
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Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
Proverbs 5:14
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation.
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 5:16
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
Proverbs 5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:
Proverbs 5:19
a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.
Proverbs 5:20
For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he makes level all his paths.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23
He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.