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wealth; and thy labours
be
in the house of a stranger;
11
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh
and thy body are consumed,
12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;
13
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that
instructed me!
14
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16
Let thy
fountains be dispersed abroad,
and
rivers of waters in the streets.
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Let them be only thine own,
and not strangers’ with thee.
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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19
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.
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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21
For the ways of man
are
before the eyes of the L
ORD
, and
he pondereth all his goings.
22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his
sins.
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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
CHAPTER 6
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,
if
thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2
Thou art
snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3
Do this now, my
son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make
sure thy friend.
4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5
Deliver thyself as a
roe from the hand
of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7
Which having no guide, overseer,
or ruler,
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Provideth her meat in the summer,
and
gathereth her food in the harvest.
9
How long wilt
thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10
Yet
a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy
want as an armed man.
12
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13
He winketh with his eyes,
he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14
Frowardness
is
in his heart, he deviseth
mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly
shall he be broken without remedy.
16
These six
things
doth the L
ORD
hate: yea, seven
are
an abomination unto him:
17
A proud
look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18
An heart that deviseth wicked
imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19
A false witness
that
speaketh lies, and he
that soweth discord among brethren.
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My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21
Bind them
continually upon thine heart,
and
tie them about thy neck.
22
When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and
when
thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
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