Verse 11
Proverbs 5:11
English Revised Version
11
And thou mourn at thy latter end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/נָהַמְתָּ֥ בְ/אַחֲרִיתֶ֑/ךָ בִּ/כְל֥וֹת בְּ֝שָׂרְ/ךָ֗ וּ/שְׁאֵרֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And you will be comforted at your end when your flesh and your bones are finished.
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Chapter 5 Context
1
My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding:
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That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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But her latter end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol;
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So that she findeth not the level path of life: her ways are unstable and she knoweth it not.
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Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto 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 door of her house:
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy strength; and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
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And thou mourn at thy latter end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?
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Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished...
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For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a strange...
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he maketh level all his paths.
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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