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Proverbs • Chapter 5
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Listen, my son, to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding.
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To guard thoughts, and the knowledge of your lips will preserve you.
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For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
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And her end is bitter like a bitter herb, sharp like the sword of a mouth.
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The feet of those going down to death, their steps will hold fast to the grave.
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The path of life, lest you wander in the ways of those who do not know.
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And now, children, listen to me and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
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Remove from your path and do not approach the entrance of her house.
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Lest you give your glory to others and your years to the cruel.
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Lest foreigners eat your strength and your labors be in a foreign house.
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And you will be comforted at your end when your flesh and your bones are finished.
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And you said, "How I have hated discipline, and my heart has despised reproof."
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And I did not hear the voice of my teacher, and to my instructor I did not turn my ear.
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I have been small in all evil among the congregation and assembly.
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Drink water from your cistern and flowing water from your well.
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"Let your springs be dispersed outside, rivers in the streets."
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They shall be for you alone, and there shall be no strangers with you.
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Blessed be your source, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
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A doe of the lovers and a gazelle of Grace; may your breasts satisfy you at all times with love; may you always be intoxicated by her love.
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And why will you stray, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
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For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He weighs all his paths.
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My iniquities will catch the wicked, and in the cords of his sins he will be held.
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He will die without discipline, and in the abundance of his folly he will go astray.