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Proverbs 5 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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My son, attend unto my wisdom;
Incline thine ear to my understanding:
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That thou mayest preserve discretion,
And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil:
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But in the end she 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 Sheol;
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So that she findeth not the level path of life:
Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.
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Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
And depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her,
And come not nigh the door of her house;
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Lest thou give thine honor unto others,
And thy years unto the cruel;
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Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
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And thou mourn at thy latter end,
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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And say, How have I hated instruction,
And my heart despised reproof;
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Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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I was well-nigh in all evil
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
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Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
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Let them be for thyself alone,
And not for strangers with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed;
And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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As a loving hind and a pleasant doe,
Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;
And be thou ravished always with her love.
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For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he maketh level all his paths.
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked,
And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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He shall die for lack of instruction;
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
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