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1. My son, to my wisdom be attentive, to my knowledge incline your ear,
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1. My son H1121 , attend H7181 unto my wisdom H2451 , and bow H5186 thine ear H241 to my understanding H8394 :
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2. That discretion may watch over you, and understanding may guard you.
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2. That thou mayest regard H8104 discretion H4209 , and that thy lips H8193 may keep H5341 knowledge H1847 .
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3. The lips of an adulteress drip with honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
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3. For H3588 the lips H8193 of a strange woman H2114 drop H5197 as a honeycomb H5317 , and her mouth H2441 is smoother H2509 than oil H4480 H8081 :
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4. But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a two-edged sword.
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4. But her end H319 is bitter H4751 as wormwood H3939 , sharp H2299 as a twoedged H6310 sword H2719 .
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5. Her feet go down to death, to the nether world her steps attain;
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5. Her feet H7272 go down H3381 to death H4194 ; her steps H6806 take hold H8551 on hell H7585 .
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6. Lest you see before you the road to life, her paths will ramble, you know not where.
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6. Lest H6435 thou shouldest ponder H6424 the path H734 of life H2416 , her ways H4570 are movable H5128 , that thou canst not H3808 know H3045 them .
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7. So now, O children, listen to me, go not astray from the words of my mouth.
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7. Hear H8085 me now H6258 therefore , O ye children H1121 , and depart H5493 not H408 from the words H4480 H561 of my mouth H6310 .
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8. Keep your way far from her, approach not the door of her house,
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8. Remove thy way far H7368 H1870 from H4480 H5921 her , and come not nigh H7126 H408 H413 the door H6607 of her house H1004 :
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9. Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to a merciless one;
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9. Lest H6435 thou give H5414 thine honor H1935 unto others H312 , and thy years H8141 unto the cruel H394 :
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10. Lest strangers have their fill of your wealth, your hard-won earnings go to an alien's house;
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10. Lest H6435 strangers H2114 be filled H7646 with thy wealth H3581 ; and thy labors H6089 be in the house H1004 of a stranger H5237 ;
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11. And you groan in the end, when your flesh and your body are consumed;
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11. And thou mourn H5098 at the last H319 , when thy flesh H1320 and thy body H7607 are consumed H3615 ,
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12. And you say, "Oh, why did I hate instruction, and my heart spurn reproof!
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12. And say H559 , How H349 have I hated H8130 instruction H4148 , and my heart H3820 despised H5006 reproof H8433 ;
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13. Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers, nor to my instructors incline my ear!
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13. And have not H3808 obeyed H8085 the voice H6963 of my teachers H3384 , nor H3808 inclined H5186 mine ear H241 to them that instructed H3925 me!
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14. I have all but come to utter ruin, condemned by the public assembly!"
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14. I was H1961 almost H4592 in all H3605 evil H7451 in the midst H8432 of the congregation H6951 and assembly H5712 .
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15. Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
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15. Drink H8354 waters H4325 out of thine own cistern H4480 H953 , and running waters H5140 out of H4480 H8432 thine own well H875 .
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16. How may your water sources be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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16. Let thy fountains H4599 be dispersed H6327 abroad H2351 , and rivers H6388 of waters H4325 in the streets H7339 .
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17. Let your fountain be yours alone, not one shared with strangers;
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17. Let them be H1961 only H905 thine own , and not H369 strangers H2114 ' with H854 thee.
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18. And have joy of the wife of your youth,
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18. Let thy fountain H4726 be H1961 blessed H1288 : and rejoice H8055 with the wife H4480 H802 of thy youth H5271 .
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19. your lovely hind, your graceful doe. Her love will invigorate you always, through her love you will flourish continually,
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19. Let her be as the loving H158 hind H365 and pleasant H2580 roe H3280 ; let her breasts H1717 satisfy H7301 thee at all H3605 times H6256 ; and be thou ravished H7686 always H8548 with her love H160 .
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20. Why then, my son, should you go astray for another's wife and accept the embraces of an adulteress?
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20. And why H4100 wilt thou , my son H1121 , be ravished H7686 with a strange woman H2114 , and embrace H2263 the bosom H2436 of a stranger H5237 ?
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21. For each man's ways are plain to the LORD'S sight; all their paths he surveys;
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21. For H3588 the ways H1870 of man H376 are before H5227 the eyes H5869 of the LORD H3068 , and he pondereth H6424 all H3605 his goings H4570 .
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22. By his own iniquities the wicked man will be caught, in the meshes of his own sin he will be held fast;
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22. His own iniquities H5771 shall take H3920 H853 the wicked H7563 himself , and he shall be holden H8551 with the cords H2256 of his sins H2403 .
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23. He will die from lack of discipline, through the greatness of his folly he will be lost.
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23. He H1931 shall die H4191 without H369 instruction H4148 ; and in the greatness H7230 of his folly H200 he shall go astray H7686 .
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