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5.15
PROVERBS
- And running waters out of thine own well.
- 16Let thy springs be dispersed abroad,
- And courses of water in the streets.
- 17Let them be only thine own,
- And not strangers' with thee.
- 18Let thy fountain be blessed;
- And have joy of the wife of thy youth.
- 19A lovely hind and a graceful doe,
- Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;
- With her love be thou ravished always.
- 20Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
- And embrace the bosom of an alien?
- 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
- And He maketh even all his paths.
- 22His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked,
- And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
- 23He shall die for lack of instruction;
- And in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.
- 6 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour,
- If thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger—
- 2Thou art snared by the words of thy mouth,
- Thou art caught by the words of thy mouth—
- 3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
- Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour;
- Go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.
- 4Give not sleep to thine eyes,
- nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- 5Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter],
- And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- 6Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
- Consider her ways, and be wise;
- 7Which having no chief,
- Overseer, or ruler,
- 8Provideth her bread in the summer,
- And gatherest her food in the harvest.
- 9How 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'—
- 11So shall thy poverty come as a runner,
- And thy want as an armed man.
- 12A base person, a man of iniquity,
- Is he that walketh with a froward mouth;
- 13That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet,
- That pointeth with his fingers;
- 14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually;
- He soweth discord.
- 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
- On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
- 16There are six things which the Lord hateth,
- Yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him:
- 17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
- And hands that shed innocent blood;
- 18A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts,
- Feet that are swift in running to evil;
- 19A false witness that breatheth out lies,
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