KJV-Parallel Bibles
1. My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2. That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9. Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13. And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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.
20. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
1. My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
2. To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
3. For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
4. And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
5. Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
6. The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.
7. And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
8. Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
9. Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
10. Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
11. And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
12. And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
13. And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
14. As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
16. Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
17. Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
18. Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
19. A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
20. And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
21. For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
22. His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
23. He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
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