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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5, Verse 20

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[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
American Standard Version
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
New English Translation
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
World English Bible
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21
For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
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Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,