| King James Bible | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19Let 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. | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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