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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the four hundred and eightieth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">four hundred and fortieth</span></span></span><span class="content"> year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.6.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The temple that King Solomon built for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide and 14 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 16 and 20</span></span></span><span class="content"> and projected ten cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verses 23-26</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the front of the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The lowest floor was five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verses 10 and 24</span></span></span><span class="content"> wide, the middle floor six cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 9 feet or about 2.7 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the third floor seven.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.6.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The entrance to the lowest</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:8 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">middle</span></span></span><span class="content"> floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Solomon: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.6.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Solomon built the temple and completed it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 60 feet or about 18 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> there. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.6.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits&#8212;ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The height of each cherub was ten cubits. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He overlaid the cherubim with gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.6.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.6.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the same way, for the entrance to the main hall he made doorframes out of olive wood that were one fourth of the width of the hall. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1KI.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1KI.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1KI.6.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1KI.6.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1KI.6.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1KI.6.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The foundation of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Solomon began to build the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Ornan, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Araunah</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jebusite, the place provided by David. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.3.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide</span></span></span><span class="content"> (using the cubit of the old standard). </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13</span></span></span><span class="content"> long across the width of the building and twenty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">and a hundred and twenty</span></span></span><span class="content"> cubits high.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.3.4"><span class="content">He overlaid the inside with pure gold. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.3.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple&#8212;twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 23 tons or about 21 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of fine gold. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.3.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 15</span></span></span><span class="content"> long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">facing inward</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.3.14"></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Get Wisdom at Any Cost</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen, my sons, to a father&#8217;s instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="content">pay attention and gain understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I give you sound learning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="content">so do not forsake my teaching.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I too was a son to my father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="content">still tender, and cherished by my mother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then he taught me, and he said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Take hold of my words with all your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">keep my commands, and you will live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Get wisdom, get understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="content">do not forget my words or turn away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="content">love her, and she will watch over you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The beginning of wisdom is this: Get</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Wisdom is supreme; therefore get</span></span></span><span class="content"> wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="content">Though it cost all you have,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wisdom. / Whatever else you get</span></span></span><span class="content"> get understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Cherish her, and she will exalt you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="content">embrace her, and she will honor you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She will give you a garland to grace your head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="content">and present you with a glorious crown.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Listen, my son, accept what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="content">and the years of your life will be many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I instruct you in the way of wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="content">and lead you along straight paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you walk, your steps will not be hampered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="content">when you run, you will not stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="content">guard it well, for it is your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not set foot on the path of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="content">or walk in the way of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Avoid it, do not travel on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="content">turn from it and go on your way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For they cannot rest until they do evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="content">they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They eat the bread of wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="content">and drink the wine of violence.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">shining ever brighter till the full light of day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="content">they do not know what makes them stumble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to what I say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not let them out of your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="content">keep them within your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for they are life to those who find them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="content">and health to one&#8217;s whole body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Above all else, guard your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">for everything you do flows from it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Keep your mouth free of perversity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="content">keep corrupt talk far from your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let your eyes look straight ahead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="content">fix your gaze directly before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give careful thought to the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Make level</span></span></span><span class="content"> paths for your feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="content">and be steadfast in all your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Do not turn to the right or the left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="content">keep your foot from evil.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to my wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words of insight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">that you may maintain discretion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">and your lips may preserve knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">and her speech is smoother than oil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but in the end she is bitter as gall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">sharp as a double-edged sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Her feet go down to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">her steps lead straight to the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She gives no thought to the way of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now then, my sons, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">do not turn aside from what I say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep to a path far from her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">do not go near the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">lest you lose your honor to others</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">and your dignity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">years</span></span></span><span class="content"> to one who is cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">lest strangers feast on your wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">and your toil enrich the house of another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">At the end of your life you will groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">when your flesh and body are spent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will say, &#8220;How I hated discipline!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">How my heart spurned correction!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would not obey my teachers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">or turn my ear to my instructors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And I was soon in serious trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">in the assembly of God&#8217;s people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink water from your own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">running water from your own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Should your springs overflow in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">your streams of water in the public squares?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be yours alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">never to be shared with strangers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May your fountain be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A loving doe, a graceful deer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may her breasts satisfy you always,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may you ever be intoxicated with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man&#8217;s wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For your ways are in full view of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">and he examines all your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">the cords of their sins hold them fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For lack of discipline they will die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="content">led astray by their own great folly.</span></span></div>
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