| 5 | Proverbs | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding; | Warning against adultery. Pr.5.1-23 | ||
| that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. | |||
| For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; | |||
| but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. | |||
| Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; | |||
| she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. | |||
| And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. | |||
| Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house; | |||
| lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless; | |||
| lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien; | |||
| and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, | |||
| and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! | |||
| I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. | |||
| I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation." | |||
| Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. | |||
| Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? | |||
| Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. | |||
| Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, | |||
| a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love. | |||
| Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress? | |||
| For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths. | |||
| The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin. | |||
| He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost. | |||
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