Proverbs Chapter 5
5:1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding: |
5:2 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge. |
5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: |
5:4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged ![]() |
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5:6 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. |
5:7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
5:8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her ![]() |
5:9 | Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
5:10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the ![]() |
5:11 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
5:12 | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
5:13 | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
5:14 | I was almost in all ![]() |
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5:16 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of ![]() |
5:17 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
5:19 | [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all ![]() |
5:20 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
5:21 | For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. |
5:22 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
5:23 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |