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1
My
son,
attend
unto my
wisdom,
and
bow
thine
ear
to my
understanding:
2
That thou mayest
regard
discretion,
and that thy
lips
may
keep
knowledge.
3
For the
lips
of a strange
woman
drop
as an
honeycomb,
and her
mouth
[a]
is
smoother
than
oil:
4
But her
end
is
bitter
as
wormwood,
sharp
as a
twoedged
sword.
5
Her
feet
go
down
to
death;
her
steps
take
hold
on
hell.
6
Lest thou shouldest
ponder
the
path
of
life,
her
ways
are
moveable
, that thou canst not
know
them.
7
Hear
me now therefore, O ye
children,
and
depart
not from the
words
of my
mouth.
8
Remove
thy
way
far
from her, and come not
nigh
the
door
of her
house:
9
Lest thou
give
thine
honour
unto
others,
and thy
years
unto the
cruel:
10
Lest
strangers
be
filled
with thy
wealth;
[b]
and thy
labours
be in the
house
of a
stranger;
11
And thou
mourn
at the
last,
when thy
flesh
and thy
body
are
consumed
,
12
And
say
, How have I
hated
instruction,
and my
heart
despised
reproof;
13
And have not
obeyed
the
voice
of my
teachers
, nor
inclined
mine
ear
to them that
instructed
me!
14
I was
almost
in all
evil
in the
midst
of the
congregation
and
assembly.
15
Drink
waters
out of thine own
cistern,
and running
waters
out
of
thine own
well.
16
Let thy
fountains
be
dispersed
abroad,
and
rivers
of
waters
in the
streets.
17
Let them be only thine own, and not
strangers
' with thee.
18
Let thy
fountain
be
blessed
: and
rejoice
with the
wife
of thy
youth.
19
Let her be as the
loving
hind
and
pleasant
roe;
let her
breasts
satisfy
[c]
thee at all
times;
and be thou
ravished
always
with her
love.
20
And why wilt thou, my
son,
be
ravished
with a strange
woman
, and
embrace
the
bosom
of a
stranger?
21
For the
ways
of
man
are
before
the
eyes
of the
LORD,
and he
pondereth
all his
goings.
22
His own
iniquities
shall
take
the
wicked
himself, and he shall be
holden
with the
cords
of his
sins.
[d]
23
He shall
die
without
instruction;
and in the
greatness
of his
folly
he shall go
astray
.
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Footnotes
4
[a].
mouth: Heb. palate
[b].
thy wealth: Heb. thy strength
[c].
satisfy...: Heb. water thee
[d].
sins: Heb. sin
Proverbs 5 Commentaries
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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete)
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