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Proverbs 5:17-23
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Proverbs 5:17-23
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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
[a]
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.
[b]
23
He shall
die
without
instruction;
and in the
greatness
of his
folly
he shall go
astray
.
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[a].
satisfy...: Heb. water thee
[b].
sins: Heb. sin
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