Proverbs 5 : 1 (LXXEN)
My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words;
Proverbs 5 : 2 (LXXEN)
that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;
Proverbs 5 : 3 (LXXEN)
for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate:
Proverbs 5 : 4 (LXXEN)
but afterwards thou wilt find her more *Gr. a more bitter thing bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5 : 5 (LXXEN)
For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established.
Proverbs 5 : 6 (LXXEN)
For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
Proverbs 5 : 7 (LXXEN)
Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect.
Proverbs 5 : 8 (LXXEN)
Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
Proverbs 5 : 9 (LXXEN)
lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the merciless:
Proverbs 5 : 10 (LXXEN)
lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers;
Proverbs 5 : 11 (LXXEN)
And thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed,
Proverbs 5 : 12 (LXXEN)
and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
Proverbs 5 : 13 (LXXEN)
*Alex. omits «not’ I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear.
Proverbs 5 : 14 (LXXEN)
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5 : 15 (LXXEN)
Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.
Proverbs 5 : 16 (LXXEN)
Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.
Proverbs 5 : 17 (LXXEN)
Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee.
Proverbs 5 : 18 (LXXEN)
Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5 : 19 (LXXEN)
Let thy loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
Proverbs 5 : 20 (LXXEN)
Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.
Proverbs 5 : 21 (LXXEN)
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
Proverbs 5 : 22 (LXXEN)
Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Proverbs 5 : 23 (LXXEN)
Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.
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