The Bible, King James version, Book 20: ProverbsAnonymous
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The Bible, King James version, Book 20: Proverbs
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Bible. Proverbs
20:004:024 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far
from thee.
20:004:025 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee.
20:004:026 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
established.
20:004:027 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot
from evil.
20:005:001 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
understanding:
20:005:002 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep
knowledge.
20:005:003 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil:
20:005:004 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
20:005:005 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
20:005:006 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, that thou canst not know them.
20:005:007 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the
words of my mouth.
20:005:008 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her
house:
20:005:009 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
the cruel:
20:005:010 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be
in the house of a stranger;
20:005:011 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are
consumed,
20:005:012 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;
20:005:013 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
mine ear to them that instructed me!
20:005:014 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and
assembly.
20:005:015 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out
of thine own well.
20:005:016 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in
the streets.
20:005:017 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
20:005:018 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy
youth.
20:005:019 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.
20:005:020 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
20:005:021 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he
pondereth all his goings.
20:005:022 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall
be holden with the cords of his sins.
20:005:023 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
folly he shall go astray.
20:006:001 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast
stricken thy hand with a stranger,
20:006:002 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken
with the words of thy mouth.
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