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| 1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, |
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| 2 To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. |
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| 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth, |
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| 4 And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths. |
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| 5 Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. |
Take hold on hell – Lead to sheol, oblivion, death, the grave. E367; R2599:4
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| 6 The path of life lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths thou knowest not. |
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| 7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. |
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| 8 Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, |
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| 9 Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, |
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| 10 Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, |
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| 11 And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, |
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| 12 And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, |
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| 13 And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. |
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| 14 As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company. |
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| 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. |
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| 16 Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. |
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| 17 Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
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| 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, |
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| 19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. |
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| 20 And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger And embrace the bosom of a strange woman |
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| 21 For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. |
All his goings – The Judge is taking minute cognizance of man's actions and words. R722:2, R2613:1
"Every idle (pernicious, injurious or malicious) word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof." (Matt. 12:36) R722:2, R2613:1
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| 22 His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. |
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| 23 He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself! |
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