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## Proverbs 5:9-12 in Context (Verses 6–15 KJV)
 
 [6 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/6) Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, *that* thou canst not know *them*.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/8) Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
 
 [9 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/9) Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
 
 [10 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/10) Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours *be* in the house of a stranger;*
 
 [11 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/11) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
 
 [12 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/12) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
 
 [13 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/13) And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 
 [14 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/14) I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/proverbs/5/15) ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
 
[Proverbs 4](/kjv/proverbs/4) [Proverbs 6](/kjv/proverbs/6)

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