1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)
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.

5:1 ¶
My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:

5:2
That thou mayest preserve discretion,and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.

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For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;

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But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!

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Her feet, are going down to death,on hades, will her steps take firm hold.

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Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither].

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Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

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Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:

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Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:

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Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.

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So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;

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And thou shalt sayHow I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

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Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:

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Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.

5:15 ¶
Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.

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Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:

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Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.

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Let thy well-spring be blessed,and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:

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A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.

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Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?

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For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,and, all his tracks, doth he consider:

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His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

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He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.