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| 1 My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear: |
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| 2 That thou mayest preserve discretion,–and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it. |
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| 3 For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth; |
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| 4 But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword! |
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| 5 Her feet, are going down to death,–on hades, will her steps take firm hold. |
Take hold on hell – Lead to sheol, oblivion, death, the grave. E367; R2599:4
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| 6 Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither]. |
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| 7 Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth. |
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| 8 Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house: |
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| 9 Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel: |
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| 10 Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien. |
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| 11 So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition; |
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| 12 And thou shalt say–How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained; |
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| 13 Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear: |
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| 14 Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly. |
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| 15 Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well. |
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| 16 Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters: |
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| 17 Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee. |
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| 18 Let thy well-spring be blessed,–and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:– |
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| 19 A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore. |
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| 20 Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown? |
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| 21 For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,–and, all his tracks, doth he consider: |
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, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized. |
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| 23 He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost. |
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