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Proverbs 5	Proverbs 5
Proverbs 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:	Proverbs 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Proverbs 5:2 That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.	Proverbs 5:2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:	Proverbs 5:3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.	Proverbs 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;	Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Proverbs 5:6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.	Proverbs 5:6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
Proverbs 5:7 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.	Proverbs 5:7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
Proverbs 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;	Proverbs 5:8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
Proverbs 5:9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;	Proverbs 5:9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
Proverbs 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,	Proverbs 5:10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Proverbs 5:11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,	Proverbs 5:11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;	Proverbs 5:12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
Proverbs 5:13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!	Proverbs 5:13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
Proverbs 5:14 I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.	Proverbs 5:14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
Proverbs 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.	Proverbs 5:15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Proverbs 5:16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?	Proverbs 5:16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
Proverbs 5:17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.	Proverbs 5:17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.	Proverbs 5:18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Proverbs 5:19 [As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.	Proverbs 5:19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Proverbs 5:20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?	Proverbs 5:20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.	Proverbs 5:21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.	Proverbs 5:22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.	Proverbs 5:23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.