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| 5:1 |
My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
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| 5:2 |
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
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| 5:3 |
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
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| 5:4 |
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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| 5:5 |
Her feet go down to death;her steps follow the path to Sheol;
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| 5:6 |
she does not take heed to the path of life;her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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| 5:7 |
And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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| 5:8 |
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
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| 5:9 |
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
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| 5:10 |
lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
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| 5:11 |
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
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| 5:12 |
and you say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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| 5:13 |
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
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| 5:14 |
I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.'
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| 5:15 |
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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| 5:16 |
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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| 5:17 |
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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| 5:18 |
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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| 5:19 |
a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
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| 5:20 |
Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
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| 5:21 |
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.
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| 5:22 |
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
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| 5:23 |
He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.
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