Posted on 07/07/2021 1:18:56 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death" (Proverbs 7:22-27).
“He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks.” You might as well just go to the jail and put your head and your hands and your feet in the holes, because that's what it's like.
There's a story about a G.I. down in Laredo, and he's going to cross over into Mexico and have a good time; and as he's getting near to the border crossing, he stumbled upon this blind old man. He’s sitting there against the wall giving out pencils for 5 cents or whatever he can get. He’s just a ragged old man and blind as a bat. So, the kid says, “Give me one of them pencils.” The blind man said, “You sound like a young man.” The kid says, “Yep!” The man asked, “What do you do?” “I'm in the army. I'm going across the border to have me some fun.”
The old man paused for second he said, “Just let me give you a bit of advice. I had “fun” one night with a Mexican gal and spent the next 20 years like this,” and pointing to himself, he said, “Blind from gonorrhea or syphilis or some such thing.” Then the kid looked at his pencil and it had “be sure your sin will find you out” printed on it.
“. . . or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.”
Verse 24, “Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and at tend to the words of my mouth,” this verse doesn't stick out that much with so many other verses that basically managed to say the same thing. “Here my words,” “hear my words, my son,” “hear your father's instruction,” just over and over and over again.
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