1901 American Standard Version (ASV)
Proverbs 5
1 Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom. 3 He sheweth the mischief of whoredom and riot. 15 He exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and charity. 22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.
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5:1 ¶
My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
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5:2
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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5:3 ¶
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth 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 take hold on Sheol;
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5:6
So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
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5:7
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
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5:8
Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
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5:9
Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
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5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,
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5:11
And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
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5:13
Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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5:14
I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
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5:15 ¶
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
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5:16
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
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5:17
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
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5:18
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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5:19
[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
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5:20
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
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5:22 ¶
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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5:23
He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.