  THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
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  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 sword.

  5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

  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 
       house:

  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 house of a stranger;

  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 evil in the midst of the congregation and 
        assembly.

  5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out 
        of thine own well.

  5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters 
        in the streets.

  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 times; and be thou ravished always with her 
        love.

  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.




