Proverbs 5

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(Pro 5:1) My son, attend unto my wisdom, {and} bow thine ear to my understanding:
(Pro 5:2) That thou mayest regard discretion, and {that} thy lips may keep knowledge.
(Pro 5:3) For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil:
(Pro 5:4) But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
(Pro 5:5) Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
(Pro 5:6) Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, {that} thou canst not know {them}.
(Pro 5:7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
(Pro 5:8) Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
(Pro 5:9) Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
(Pro 5:10) Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours {be} in the house of a stranger;
(Pro 5:11) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
(Pro 5:12) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
(Pro 5:13) And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
(Pro 5:14) I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
(Pro 5:15) Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
(Pro 5:16) Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, {and} rivers of waters in the streets.
(Pro 5:17) Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
(Pro 5:18) Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
(Pro 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.
(Pro 5:20) And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
(Pro 5:21) For the ways of man {are} before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
(Pro 5:22) His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
(Pro 5:23) He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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