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5:1  My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:
5:2  That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
5:4  But in the end she 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  So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and'she knoweth it not.
5:7  Now therefore, my'sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
5:9  Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;
5:10  Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,
5:11  And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
5:12  And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
5:13  Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
5:14  I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.
5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
5:16  Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
5:18  Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
5:19  As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
5:20  For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
5:23  He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.