THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
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4:22. For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
4:23. With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
4:24. Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
4:25. Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
4:26. Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
4:27. Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
Proverbs Chapter 5
An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the occasions of it.
5:1. My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,
5:2. That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
5:3. For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
5:4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5. Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
5:6. They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
5:7. Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
5:9. Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
5:10. Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
5:11. And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
5:12. Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
5:13. And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
5:14. I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
5:15. Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
5:16. Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
5:17. Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
5:18. Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
5:19. Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.
5:20. Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?
5:21. The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
5:22. His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
5:23. He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
Proverbs Chapter 6
Documents on several heads.
6:1. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,
6:2. Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
6:3. Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:
6:4. Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
6:5. Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6. Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
6:7. Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,