Verse 9
Proverbs 5:9
American Standard Version
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Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
Original Language Text
hebrew
פֶּן תִּתֵּ֣ן לַ/אֲחֵרִ֣ים הוֹדֶ֑/ךָ וּ֝/שְׁנֹתֶ֗י/ךָ לְ/אַכְזָרִֽי
English Translation
Lest you give your glory to others and your years to the cruel.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
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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 in the end she 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 honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
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Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [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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I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
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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 streams 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 ravish...
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For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a f...
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; 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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