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| 5:1 | My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: |
| 5:2 | That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
| 5:3 | For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
| 5:4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. |
| 5:5 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. |
| 5:6 | Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
| 5:7 | Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
| 5:8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| 5:9 | Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
| 5:10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
| 5:11 | And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
| 5:12 | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
| 5:13 | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
| 5:14 | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| 5:15 | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. |
| 5:16 | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
| 5:17 | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
| 5:18 | Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
| 5:19 | Let 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. |
| 5:20 | And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
| 5:21 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. |
| 5:22 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
| 5:23 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
| 5:1 | My sonne, geue hede vnto my wysdome, and bowe thyne eare vnto my prudence: |
| 5:2 | that thou mayest regarde good councel, and that thy lippes maye kepe knowledge |
| 5:3 | For the lyppes of an harlot are a droppyng hony combe and her throte is more glisterynge them oyle. |
| 5:4 | But at the last she is as bytter as wormwod, and as sharpe as a two edged swerde. |
| 5:5 | Her fete go downe vnto death and her steppes pearse thorowe vnto hell. |
| 5:6 | Parchaunse thou dwellynge with her wylt ponder the path of lyfe? so vnstedfast are her wayes, that thou canst not knowe them. |
| 5:7 | Heare me nowe therfore (O my sonnes) & departe not from the wordes of my mouth. |
| 5:8 | Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye the dores of her house. |
| 5:9 | That thou geue not thy strength vnto other, & thy yeares to the cruell. |
| 5:10 | That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, and that thy laboures come not in a straunge house. |
| 5:11 | Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and lusty greane youth) |
| 5:12 | and then saye: Alas, why hated I nourtoure: why did my herte despise correccion? |
| 5:13 | Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, and herkened not vnto them that infourmed me? |
| 5:14 | I am come almost into all misfortune, in the myddest of the multitude and congregacion. |
| 5:15 | Drincke of the water, of thyne awne well and of the ryuers that runne out of thyne awne springes. |
| 5:16 | Let thy welles flowe out abroade, that there may he ryuers of water in the stretes: |
| 5:17 | but let them be onely thyne awne, and not straungers with the. |
| 5:18 | Let thy well be blessed and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth. |
| 5:19 | Louinge is the hynde, and frendly is the Roo: let her brestes alwaye satisfye the, and holde the euer content with her loue. |
| 5:20 | My sonne, why wylt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, & embrace the bosome, of another woman? |
| 5:21 | For euery mans wayes are open in the syght of the Lorde, and he pondreth all theyr goynges. |
| 5:22 | The wyckednesse of the vngodly shall catch hymselfe, and with the snares of hys awne synnes shall he be trapped. |
| 5:23 | He shall dye without amendement, and for hys greate folyshnesse he shall go astraye. |
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