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1 My son, attend unto my wisdom;
Incline thine ear to my understanding:
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2 That thou mayest preserve discretion,
And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,
And her mouth is smoother than oil:
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4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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5 Her feet go down to death;
Her steps take hold on Sheol;
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Take hold on hell – Lead to sheol, oblivion, death, the grave. E367; R2599:4
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6 So that she findeth not the level path of life;
Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.
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7 Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
And depart not from the words of my mouth.
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8 Remove thy way far from her,
And come not nigh the door of her house;
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9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others,
And thy years unto the cruel;
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10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
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11 And thou mourn at thy latter end,
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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12 And say, How have I hated instruction,
And my heart despised reproof;
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13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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14 I was well-nigh in all evil
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
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15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
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16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
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17 Let them be for thyself alone,
And not for strangers with thee.
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18 Let thy fountain be blessed;
And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
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19 As a loving hind and a pleasant doe,
Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;
And be thou ravished always with her love.
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20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he maketh level all his paths.
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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 take the wicked,
And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
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23 He shall die for lack of instruction;
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
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