Welcome to Proverbs chapter 5 on Build Your Bible Habit. Chapter 5 begins with a reminder to pay close attention to wisdom and understanding. The phrase, bow thine ear, reminds us that if we're not listening to God, we won't hear him. The entire book of Proverbs reads like a how-to-live instruction manual.

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Proverbs chapter 5, My son attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding, that thou mayest

regard discretion and that thy lips may

keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than

oil. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on hell.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.

Hear me now, therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her

house, lest thou give thine honor unto others and thy years unto the cruel, lest strangers be filled with

thy wealth, and thy labors be in the house of a stranger, and now mourn at the last when thy flesh

and thy body are consumed and say,

how have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice of my

teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me. I was almost in all evil in the midst

of the congregation and assembly.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets.

Let them be only thine own and not strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of

thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant row. Let her breast satisfy thee at all times,

and be thou ravished always with her love. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. His own

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