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Proverbs 5
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Chapter 5
Flight from the seductress. Where the wise man’s love should be
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My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen carefully to what I know,
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and so have prudence and knowledge to protect you; these will keep a guard on your lips.
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Take no notice of a loose-living woman, for the lips of this alien drip with honey, her words are smoother than oil,
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but their outcome is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death, her steps lead down to Sheol;
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far from following the path of life, her ways are undirected, irresponsible.
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And now, my son, listen to me, never deviate from what I say:
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set your course as far from her as possible, go nowhere near the door of her house,
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or you will surrender your honour to others, your years to one who has no pity,
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and strangers will batten on your property, your labours going to some alien house,
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and, at your ending, when body and flesh are consumed, you will groan
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and exclaim, ‘Alas, I hated discipline, my heart spurned all correction;
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I would not hear the voice of my masters, I would not listen to those who tried to teach me.
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Now I am all but reduced to the depths of misery, in the presence of the whole community.’
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Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.[*a]
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Do not let your fountains flow to waste elsewhere, nor your streams in the public streets.
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Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers at the same time.
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And may your fountain-head be blessed! Find joy with the wife you married in your youth,
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fair as a hind, graceful as a fawn. Let hers be the company you keep, hers the breasts that ever fill you with delight, hers the love that ever holds you captive.
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Why be seduced, my son, by an alien woman, and fondle the breast of a woman who is a stranger?
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For the eyes of Yahweh observe a man’s ways and survey all his paths.
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The wicked man is snared in his own misdeeds, is caught in the meshes of his own sin.
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For want of discipline, he dies, and is lost through his own excessive folly.
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