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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 5:1-23
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23 verses
Green's Literal Translation
Proverbs 5:1
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My son, pay attention to my wisdom; stretch your ear to my understanding;
Proverbs 5:2
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so that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 5:3
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For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is sweeter than oil,
Proverbs 5:4
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but afterwards, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword of mouths;
Proverbs 5:5
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her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,
Proverbs 5:6
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lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable, you cannot know them.
Proverbs 5:7
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Then hear me now, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 5:8
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Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near to the door of her house,
Proverbs 5:9
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lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel;
Proverbs 5:10
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that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of an alien,
Proverbs 5:11
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and you moan when your end comes , when your flesh and muscle are eaten away;
Proverbs 5:12
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and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;
Proverbs 5:13
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and I have not heard the voice of my teachers, nor stretched my ear to those instructing me.
Proverbs 5:14
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Proverbs 5:15
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Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
Proverbs 5:16
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Should your overflowing springs be scattered outside, like rivers of waters in the streets?
Proverbs 5:17
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Let them be only your own, and not to strangers with you;
Proverbs 5:18
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let your fountains be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth;
Proverbs 5:19
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she is a loving deer, a graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you every time, and always be ravished in her love.
Proverbs 5:20
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And my son, why will you be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace a foreigner's bosom?
Proverbs 5:21
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He ponders all his tracks.
Proverbs 5:22
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 5:23
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He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his foolishness he shall go astray.
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Green's Literal Translation
Copyright © 1976-2000 by Jay P. Green, Sr. Used by permission of the copyright holder.
Copyright © 1976-2000 by Jay P. Green, Sr. Used by permission of the copyright holder.