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5:1  My son, listen to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding.
5:2  So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.
5:3  For the lips of a strange woman are as sweet as honey. Her talk is as smooth as oil.
5:4  But in the end she is as bitter tasting as wormwood, and as sharp as a sword that cuts both ways.
5:5  Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of hell.
5:6  She does not think about the path of life. Her ways go this way and that, and she does not know it.
5:7  Now then, my sons, listen to me. Do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.
5:9  If you do, you would give your strength to others, and your years to those without loving-kindness.
5:10  Strangers would be filled with your strength, and the fruits of your work would go to a strange house.
5:11  You would cry inside yourself when your end comes, when your flesh and body are wasted away.
5:12  You would say, “How I have hated teaching! My heart hated strong words!
5:13  I have not listened to the voice of my teachers. I have not turned my ear to those who would teach me.
5:14  Now I have a bad name in the meeting place of the people.”
5:15  Drink water from your own pool, flowing water from your own well.
5:16  Should the waters from your well flow away, rivers of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your well be honored, and be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
5:19  Let her be like a loving, female deer. Let her breasts please you at all times. Be filled with great joy always because of her love.
5:20  My son, why should you be carried away with a sinful woman and fall into the arms of a strange woman?
5:21  For the ways of a man are seen by the eyes of the Lord, and He watches all his paths.
5:22  His own sins will trap the sinful. He will be held with the ropes of his sin.
5:23  He will die for want of teaching, and will go the wrong way because of the greatness of his foolish ways.