of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
[27] Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy
foot from evil.
Prov.5
[1] My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
[2] That thou mayest regard
discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
[3] For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil:
[4] But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
[5]
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
[6] Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life,
her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
[7] Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and
depart not from the words of my mouth.
[8] Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of
her house:
[9] Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
[10] Lest strangers
be filled with thy 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.
[17] Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
[18]
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.
[20] 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 LORD, 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.
[23] He shall
die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Prov.6
[1] 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,
[8] 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 LORD 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.
[20]
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.
[23] For the commandment is a lamp; and
the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
[24] To keep thee from the evil woman,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
[25] Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither
let her take thee with her eyelids.
[26] For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece
of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
[27] Can a man take fire in his bosom, and
his clothes not be burned?
[28] Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
[29] So he that
goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
[30] Men do not despise a
thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
[31] But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he
shall give all the substance of his house.
[32] But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he
that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
[33] A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not