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That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge

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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil

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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword

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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell

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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them

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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth

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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house

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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel

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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger

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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed

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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof

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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me

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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly

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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well

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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets

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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee

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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth

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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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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger

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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings

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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins

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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray