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5:1  My son, be attentive to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:
5:2  That you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
5:4  But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on sheol.
5:6  Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.
5:7  Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
5:9  Lest you give your honor unto others, and your years unto the merciless:
5:10  Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
5:11  And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
5:14  I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
5:15  Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
5:16  Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets?
5:17  Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
5:19  Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
5:20  And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
5:23  He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.