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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight,
5:2  so you may carefully practice discretion and your lips preserve knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.
5:4  But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to Sheol.
5:6  You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it.
5:7  Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying.
5:8  Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house,
5:9  so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;
5:10  so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.
5:11  You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed,
5:12  and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!
5:13  I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors.
5:14  Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.
5:16  Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?
5:17  They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.
5:19  Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.
5:20  Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
5:21  Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.
5:22  The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
5:23  He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.