Proverbs 5

Translation: ESV

Warning Against Adultery

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Date: May 18 2020

1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom;

    incline your ear to my understanding,

2 that you may keep discretion,

    and your lips may guard knowledge.

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3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,

    and her speech is smoother than oil,

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Date: May 23 2020

4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,

    sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death;

    her steps follow the path to Sheol;

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Date: July 11 2021
Inktober prompt: Slippery

6 she does not ponder the path of life;

    her ways wander, and she does not know it.

7 And now, O sons, listen to me,

    and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

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Inktober prompt: Gauntlet

8 Keep your way far from her,

    and do not go near the door of her house,

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9 lest you give your honor to others

    and your years to the merciless,

10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,

    and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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Date: July 30 2023
Inktober prompt: Yawn

11 and at the end of your life you groan,

    when your flesh and body are consumed,

12 and you say, “How I hated discipline,

    and my heart despised reproof!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers

    or incline my ear to my instructors.

14 I am at the brink of utter ruin

    in the assembled congregation.”

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Inktober prompt: Dune

15 Drink water from your own cistern,

    flowing water from your own well.

16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,

    streams of water in the streets?

17 Let them be for yourself alone,

    and not for strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed,

    and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

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Date: October 3 2020
Inktober prompt: Tail

19  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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Date: July 2 2021
Inktober prompt: Disgusting

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman

    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

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Date: March 9 2022
Inktober prompt: Rocket

21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,

    and he ponders all his paths.

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Date: October 7 2023
Inktober prompt: Drip

22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,

    and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

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Date: December 25 2020
Inktober prompt: Wisp

23 He dies for lack of discipline,

    and because of his great folly he is led astray.

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