📖 Proverbs 5
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Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
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in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
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For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
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but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
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Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.
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So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
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Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
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lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
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lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
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And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
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For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
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I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”
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Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
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Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
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Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
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a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
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But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
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The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
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He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.