Douay Rheims Bible

Proverbs 5

The Proverbs

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Chapter 6

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  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.  

 

 

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  Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.  

 

 

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3


 

  Do therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:  

 

 

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4


 

  Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.  

 

 

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5


 

  Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.  

 

 

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6


 

  Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:  

 

 

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  Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,  

 

 

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  Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.  

 

 

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9


 

  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?  

 

 

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10


 

  Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:  

 

 

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11


 

  And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.  

 

 

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12


 

  A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,  

 

 

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13


 

  He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.  

 

 

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14


 

  With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.  

 

 

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15


 

  To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.  

 

 

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16


 

  Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:  

 

 

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17


 

  Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,  

 

 

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  A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,  

 

 

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19


 

  A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.  

 

 

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20


 

  My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.  

 

 

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21


 

  Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.  

 

 

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22


 

  When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee; and when thou awakest, talk with them.  

 

 

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  Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:  

 

 

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  That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.  

 

 

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25


 

  Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:  

 

 

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  For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.  

 

 

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27


 

  Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?  

 

 

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28


 

  Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?  

 

 

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29


 

  So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.  

 

 

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30


 

  The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:  

 

 

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31


 

  And if he be taken he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.  

 

 

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32


 

  But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:  

 

 

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33


 

  He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:  

 

 

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34


 

  Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,  

 

 

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  Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.  

 

 

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Proverbs 7

 

 

 

 

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