| 章 |
| 5:1 |
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
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| 5:2 |
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
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| 5:3 |
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
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| 5:4 |
And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
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| 5:5 |
Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
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| 5:6 |
The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.
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| 5:7 |
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
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| 5:8 |
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
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| 5:9 |
Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
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| 5:10 |
Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
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| 5:11 |
And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
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| 5:12 |
And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
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| 5:13 |
And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
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| 5:14 |
As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
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| 5:15 |
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
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| 5:16 |
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
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| 5:17 |
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
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| 5:18 |
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
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| 5:19 |
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
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| 5:20 |
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
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| 5:21 |
For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
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| 5:22 |
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
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| 5:23 |
He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
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