Advice from a father on Father’s Day


Beginning at Proverbs 5:1 etc.

My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;

 Pro 5:2

that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

 Pro 5:3

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

 Pro 5:4

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

 Pro 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

 Pro 5:6

she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

 Pro 5:7

And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

 Pro 5:8

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;

 Pro 5:9

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;

 Pro 5:10

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;

 Pro 5:11

and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

 Pro 5:12

and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

 Pro 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

 Pro 5:14

I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”

 Pro 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

 Pro 5:16

Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

 Pro 5:17

Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

 Pro 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

 Pro 5:19

a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.

 Pro 5:20

Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

 Pro 5:21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.

 Pro 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

 Pro 5:23

He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

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