Proverbs 5

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  1. 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding,
  2. 2so that you may maintain discretion, and your lips may preserve knowledge.
  3. 3For the lips of a strange woman drip like a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil,
  4. 4But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a two-edged sword.
  5. 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  6. 6Lest you ponder the path of life, her ways are unpredictable, so you cannot know them.
  7. 7So now, listen to me, children, and do not turn away from my words.
  8. 8Keep your path far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
  9. 9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel,
  10. 10lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger,
  11. 11and you mourn in the end, when your flesh and body are consumed,
  12. 12and say, 'How I have hated instruction, and my heart has despised correction!
  13. 13I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor listened to those who instructed me!
  14. 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'
  15. 15Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.
  16. 16Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
  17. 17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.
  18. 18Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
  19. 19Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be always ravished with her love.
  20. 20And why would you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  21. 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He carefully examines all his paths.
  22. 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
  23. 23He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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