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Proverbs 5
Proverbs 5
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
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My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
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that you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of an adulteress drip as honey, and her speech is smoother than 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 take hold of Sheol.
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She does not ponder the path of life; her ways are unstable, and she does not know it.
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Listen to me now, my sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
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lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel,
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lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
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and you mourn at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
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and you say, “How I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof!
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I did not obey the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to those who instructed me.
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I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
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Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing water from your own well.
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Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
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Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth,
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a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you always be enraptured by her love.
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Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his paths.
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The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.
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He will die for lack of discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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