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| 5:1 |
 y sonne, attend vnto my wisedome, and bowe thine eare to my vnderstanding. |
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| 5:2 |
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge. |
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| 5:3 |
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an hony combe, and her mouth is smoother then oyle. |
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| 5:4 |
But her end is bitter as wormewood, sharpe as a two edged sword. |
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| 5:5 |
Her feete goe downe to death: her steps take hold on hell. |
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| 5:6 |
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her wayes are moueable, that thou canst not know them. |
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| 5:7 |
Heare me now therefore, O yee children: & depart not from the words of my mouth. |
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| 5:8 |
Remoue thy way farre from her, and come not nie the doore of her house: |
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| 5:9 |
Lest thou giue thine honour vnto others, and thy yeeres vnto the cruell: |
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| 5:10 |
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger, |
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| 5:11 |
And thou mourne at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
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| 5:12 |
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproofe? |
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| 5:13 |
And haue not obeyed the voyce of my teachers, nor inclined mine eare to them that instructed me? |
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| 5:14 |
I was almost in all euill, in the midst of the congregation & assembly. |
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| 5:15 |
Drinke waters out of thine owne cisterne, and running waters out of thine owne well. |
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| 5:16 |
Let thy fountaines bee dispersed abroad, and riuers of waters in the streets. |
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| 5:17 |
Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee. |
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| 5:18 |
Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth. |
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| 5:19 |
Let her bee as the louing Hinde and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and be thou rauisht alwayes with her loue. |
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| 5:20 |
And why wilt thou, my sonne, be rauisht with a strange woman, and imbrace the bosome of a stranger? |
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| 5:21 |
For the wayes of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. |
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| 5:22 |
His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the coards of his sinnes. |
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| 5:23 |
He shall die without instruction, and in the greatnesse of his folly he shal goe astray. |
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