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