Verse 18
Proverbs 5:18
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְהִֽי מְקוֹרְ/ךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝/שְׂמַ֗ח מֵ/אֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
Blessed be your source, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
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Chapter 5 Context
1
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
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That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman...
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For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
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But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
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They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
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Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
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9
Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
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Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
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And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
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Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
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And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not in- dined my ear to masters?
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I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
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Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
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Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
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Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
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Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
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Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; h...
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Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another ?
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The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
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His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
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He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall b...
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