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Proverbs 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:1 - My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:2 - So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 - For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:4 - But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:6 - She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:8 - Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:9 - For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:11 - And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:12 - And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:13 - I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:14 - I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:17 - Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:18 - Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:19 - As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:21 - For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:22 - The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:23 - He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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