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- My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
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- that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
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- For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
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- but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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- Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
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- she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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- And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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- Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
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- lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,
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- lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
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- and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
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- and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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- I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
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- I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
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- Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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- Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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- Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
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- Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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- a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
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- Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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- For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
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- The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
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- He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
Május 31
Kétéves:
- I. év: 4Móz 24
- II. év: Ézs 10
- Jn 19:23-42
- Zsolt 119:129-152
- Péld 16:12-13
Példabeszéd
Távol legyen a királyoktól, ó, Lemúél, távol legyen a királyoktól a borivás és az uralkodóktól a részegítő ital kívánása.