| 章 |
| 5:1 |
My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
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| 5:2 |
so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.
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| 5:3 |
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
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| 5:4 |
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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| 5:5 |
Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.
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| 5:6 |
She does not keep straight to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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| 5:7 |
And now, my child, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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| 5:8 |
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
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| 5:9 |
or you will give your honor to others, and your years to the merciless,
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| 5:10 |
and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien;
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| 5:11 |
and at the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
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| 5:12 |
and you say, "Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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| 5:13 |
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
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| 5:14 |
Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly."
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| 5:15 |
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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| 5:16 |
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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| 5:17 |
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
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| 5:18 |
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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| 5:19 |
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.
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| 5:20 |
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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| 5:21 |
For human ways are under the eyes of the LORD, and he examines all their paths.
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| 5:22 |
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
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| 5:23 |
They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.
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