Part 5

20:004:021 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

20:004:022 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

20:004:023 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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.