“Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:”
Proverbs 5:9 (KJV) |
Proverbs 5:9
From Proverbs 5, in the Book of Proverbs (Old Testament).
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,