General Search for 'Proverbs 5:3-23' - Literal Translation

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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