now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
20:005:008 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
20:005:009 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
20:005:010 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
20:005:011 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
20:005:012 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
20:005:013 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
20:005:014 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
20:005:015 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
20:005:016 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
20:005:017 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
20:005:018 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
20:005:019 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20:005:020 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
20:005:021 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
20:005:022 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
20:005:023 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
20:006:001 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
20:006:002 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
20:006:003 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
20:006:004 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
20:006:005 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
20:006:006 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
20:006:007 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
20:006:008 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
20:006:009 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
20:006:010 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
20:006:011 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
20:006:012 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
20:006:013 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
20:006:014 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
20:006:015 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
20:006:016 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
20:006:017 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
20:006:018 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
20:006:019 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20:006:020 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
20:006:021 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
20:006:022 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
20:006:023 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
20:006:024 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
20:006:025 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
20:006:026 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
20:006:027 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
20:006:028 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
20:006:029 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
20:006:030 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
20:006:031 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
20:006:032 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
20:006:033 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
20:006:034 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
20:006:035 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
20:007:001 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
20:007:002 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
20:007:003 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
20:007:004 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
20:007:005 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
20:007:006 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
20:007:007 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
20:007:008 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
20:007:009 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
20:007:010 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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