1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)
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 to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,
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5:2
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
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5:3 ¶
For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
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5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
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5:5
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
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5:6
They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
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5:7
Now, therefore, my son, hear 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 doors of her house.
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5:9
Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
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5:10
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
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5:11
And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
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5:12
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
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5:13
And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
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5:14
I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
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5:15 ¶
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
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5:16
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
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5:17
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
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5:18
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
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5:19
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.
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5:20
Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
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5:21
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
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5:22 ¶
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
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5:23
He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.