| Proverbs 5:1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;
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| Proverbs 5:2 | That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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| Proverbs 5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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| Proverbs 5:4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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| Proverbs 5:5 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world;
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| Proverbs 5:6 | Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
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| Proverbs 5:7 | Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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| Proverbs 5:8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;
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| Proverbs 5:9 | Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
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| Proverbs 5:10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
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| Proverbs 5:11 | And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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| Proverbs 5:12 | And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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| Proverbs 5:13 | Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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| Proverbs 5:14 | I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'
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| Proverbs 5:15 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
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| Proverbs 5:16 | Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
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| Proverbs 5:17 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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| Proverbs 5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
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| Proverbs 5:19 | A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
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| Proverbs 5:20 | Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
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| Proverbs 5:21 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths.
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| Proverbs 5:22 | His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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| Proverbs 5:23 | He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
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