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Proverbs

Proverbs 5 📜 📕 ↷

6 They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unsearchable.📜💬📚

7 Now therefore my son hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.📜💬📚

8 Make thy way far from her, and approach not to the doors of her house.📜💬📚

9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.📜💬📚

10 Lest perhaps strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in an other man's house,📜💬📚

11 and thou mourn in the end, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:📜💬📚

12 Why have I detested discipline, and my heart consented not to reprehensions,📜💬📚

13 nor I heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined mine ear to masters?📜💬📚

14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the Church and of the synagogue.📜💬📚

15 Drink water of thine own cistern, and the streams of thy well:📜💬📚

16 Let thy fountains be derived abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters,📜💬📚

17 Have them alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.📜💬📚

18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the woman of thy youth:📜💬📚

19 a hind most dear, and a most grateful fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all time, in her love be thou delighted continually.📜💬📚

20 Why art thou seduced my son of a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of an other?📜💬📚

21 Our Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.📜💬📚