### Douay Rheims Bible

Proverbs 4

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence.
#### 2 | That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
#### 3 | For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
#### 4 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
#### 5 | Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.
#### 6 | They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
#### 7 | Now therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
#### 8 | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.
#### 9 | Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
#### 10 | Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
#### 11 | And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
#### 12 | Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
#### 13 | And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not in- dined my ear to masters?
#### 14 | I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
#### 15 | Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
#### 16 | Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
#### 17 | Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
#### 18 | Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
#### 19 | Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times; he thou delighted continually with her love.
#### 20 | Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another ?
#### 21 | The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.
#### 22 | His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
#### 23 | He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

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