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.


