Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Proverbs Chapter 5 1-14

My son, attend to my wisdom,
and bow your ear to my understanding;
that you may maintain discretion,
and your lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey,
and her mouth is smoother than oil;
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold on hell.
She gives no thought to the way of life;
her paths are crooked but she knows it not.
Hear me now therefore, O you children,
and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove your way far from her,
and come not near the door of her house,
lest you give your best strength to others,
and your years unto the cruel:
Lest strangers be filled with your wealth;
and your labours be in the house of a stranger;
And you mourn at the last,
when your flesh and body are consumed.
You will say  "How I hated instruction,
and my heart despised reproof;
I would not obey my teachers
or listen to my instructors!
I have come to the brink of utter ruin
in the midst of the whole assembly."

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