A Stroll Through Proverbs: Proverbs 5:7-5:14 – “Flee the Immoral Woman”

“7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children [sons and daughters], and ^(a)depart not from the words of my mouth.

            ^(a)Psalm 119:102

8 Remove [go far away] thy way far from her [immoral, pagan woman], and come not nigh [near] the door of her house:

9 Lest thou give thine honour [vigour] unto others, and thy years unto the cruel [cruel one]:

10 Lest strangers [aliens] be filled with thy wealth strength]; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger [foreigner];

11 And thou mourn [groan] at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed [wasted],

12 And say, How have I hated instruction [discipline, correction, chastening], and my heart despised reproof punishment, rebuke];

13 And have not obeyed the voice of ^(a)my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

            ^(a)Proverbs 1:8

14 I was ⁽¹⁾{almost in all evil} in the midst [middle, between] of the congregation and assembly.”

            ⁽¹⁾On the verge of total ruin