Boadee on Nostr: “My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you ...
“My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.”
Proverbs 5:1-4, 15-19, 21 ESV
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Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.”
Proverbs 5:1-4, 15-19, 21 ESV
#truth
#wisdom