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Give attention to my wisdom, "" Incline your ear to my understanding,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>To observe thoughtfulness, "" And your lips keep knowledge.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, "" And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, "" Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Her feet are going down to death, "" Her steps take hold of Sheol.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The path of life—lest you ponder, "" Her paths have moved—you do not know.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And now, you sons, listen to me, "" And do not turn from sayings of my mouth.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Keep your way far from off her, "" And do not come near to the opening of her house,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Lest you give your splendor to others, "" And your years to the fierce,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Lest strangers be filled [with] your power, "" And your labors in the house of a stranger,<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you have howled in your latter end, "" In the consumption of your flesh and your food,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And have said, “How I have hated instruction, "" And my heart has despised reproof,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, "" And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As a little thing I have been all evil, "" In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Drink waters out of your own cistern, "" Even flowing ones out of your own well.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let your fountains be scattered abroad, "" In broad places streams of waters.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be to you for yourself, "" And not to strangers with you.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let your fountain be blessed, "" And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A doe of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy you at all times, "" Magnify yourself in her love continually.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And why do you magnify yourself, "" My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, "" And He is pondering all his paths.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>His own iniquities capture the wicked, "" And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He dies without instruction, "" And magnifies himself in the abundance of his folly!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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