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Warning Against Adultery
My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
Avoid Immorality
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
that you may keep discretion,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
and your lips may guard knowledge.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
sharp as a two-edged sword.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
she does not ponder the path of life;
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
And now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
and do not go near the door of her house,
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
and your years to the merciless,
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
and you say, “How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
and my heart despised reproof!
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
or incline my ear to my instructors.
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”
in the assembled congregation.”
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
flowing water from your own well.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
streams of water in the streets?
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
and not for strangers with you.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.