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Proverbs 5

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  1. 1
    WEBMy son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
    KJVMy son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
  2. 2
    WEBthat you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
    KJVThat thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
  3. 3
    WEBFor the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
    KJVFor the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  4. 4
    WEBbut in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
    KJVBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
  5. 5
    WEBHer feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
    KJVHer feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  6. 6
    WEBShe gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
    KJVLest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
  7. 7
    WEBNow therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
    KJVHear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
  8. 8
    WEBRemove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
    KJVRemove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
  9. 9
    WEBlest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;
    KJVLest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
  10. 10
    WEBlest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
    KJVLest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
  11. 11
    WEBYou will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
    KJVAnd thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
  12. 12
    WEBand say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
    KJVAnd say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  13. 13
    WEBI haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
    KJVAnd have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
  14. 14
    WEBI have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”
    KJVI was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
  15. 15
    WEBDrink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
    KJVDrink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
  16. 16
    WEBShould your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
    KJVLet thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
  17. 17
    WEBLet them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
    KJVLet them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
  18. 18
    WEBLet your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
    KJVLet thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
  19. 19
    WEBA loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
    KJVLet 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.
  20. 20
    WEBFor why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
    KJVAnd why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  21. 21
    WEBFor the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
    KJVFor the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
  22. 22
    WEBThe evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
    KJVHis own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
  23. 23
    WEBHe will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
    KJVHe shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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