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| 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: |
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| 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
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| 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
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| 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. |
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| 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol. |
Take hold on hell – Lead to sheol, oblivion, death, the grave. E367; R2599:4
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| 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
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| 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
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| 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
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| 11 And thou mourn at the last, 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 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
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| 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
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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 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
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| 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
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| 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
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| 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. |
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| 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
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| 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
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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 himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
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| 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
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