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American King James Version

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My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow 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 a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.

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Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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Remove your way far from her, and come not 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 be in the house of a stranger;

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And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

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I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.

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Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

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Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

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Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.

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And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.

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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Proverbs 5of 31

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About Proverbs 5

Vivid warning against adultery; seductress leads to bitterness and death. Celebrate marital fidelity. God observes all paths; sin ensnares the wicked.

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Author
Solomon and later sages
Written
10th – 7th centuries BC (collection process)
Location
Ancient Israel
Setting
Royal court and everyday life in Israel

Practical wisdom for godly living across generations.

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