Proverbs 5
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- 1My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;
- בְּ֭נִי
- לְחָכְמָתִ֣י
- הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה
- לִ֝תְבוּנָתִ֗י
- הַט־
- הַטhat-inclineH5186
- אָזְנֶֽךָ׃
- 2That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- 3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
- 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
- 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world;
- 6Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
- 7Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;
- 9Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
- 10Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;
- 11And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- וְנָהַמְתָּ֥
- בְאַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ
- בִּכְל֥וֹת
- בְּ֝שָׂרְךָ֗
- וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃
- 12And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- 13Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- 14I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'
- 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- 16Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.
- 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
- 18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
- 19A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
- 20Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
- 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths.
- 22His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
- 23He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
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