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5.15 :And running waters out of thine own well.
 * Let thy springs be dispersed abroad,
 * And courses of water in the streets.
 * Let them be only thine own,
 * And not strangers' with thee.
 * Let thy fountain be blessed;
 * And have joy of the wife of thy youth.
 * A lovely hind and a graceful doe,
 * Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;
 * With her love be thou ravished always.
 * Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
 * And embrace the bosom of an alien?


 * For the ways of man are before the eyes of the ,
 * And He maketh even all his paths.
 * His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked,
 * And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
 * He shall die for lack of instruction;
 * And in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.


 * My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour,
 * If thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger—
 * Thou art snared by the words of thy mouth,
 * Thou art caught by the words of thy mouth—
 * Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
 * Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour;
 * Go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.
 * Give not sleep to thine eyes,
 * nor slumber to thine eyelids.
 * Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter],
 * And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.


 * Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
 * Consider her ways, and be wise;
 * Which having no chief,
 * Overseer, or ruler,
 * Provideth her bread in the summer,
 * And gatherest her food in the harvest.
 * How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
 * When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
 * 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
 * A little folding of the hands to sleep'—
 * So shall thy poverty come as a runner,
 * And thy want as an armed man.


 * A base person, a man of iniquity,
 * Is he that walketh with a froward mouth;
 * That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet,
 * That pointeth with his fingers;
 * Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually;
 * He soweth discord.
 * Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
 * On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.


 * There are six things which the hateth,
 * Yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him:
 * Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
 * And hands that shed innocent blood;
 * A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts,
 * Feet that are swift in running to evil;
 * A false witness that breatheth out lies,