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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my discernment;
5:2  That you may keep discretion And that your lips may guard knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of a strange woman drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech;
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 of Sheol,
5:6  Lest she watch the path of life; Her tracks are unstable, she does not know it.
5:7  So now, my sons, listen to me And do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Keep your way far from her And do not go near the door of her house,
5:9  Lest you give your splendor to others And your years to the cruel one;
5:10  Lest strangers be satisfied by your strength And by your painful labor, those in the house of a foreigner;
5:11  And you groan at your end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;
5:12  And you say, “How I have hated discipline! And my heart spurned reproof!
5:13  I have not listened to the voice of my instructors, And I have not inclined my ear to my teachers!
5:14  I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.
5:16  Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be for you alone, And not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed, And be glad in the wife of your youth.
5:19  As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be intoxicated always with her love.
5:20  So why should you, my son, be intoxicated with a strange woman And embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
5:21  For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh, And He watches all his tracks.
5:22  His own iniquities will capture him who is the wicked one, And with the cords of his sin he will be held fast.
5:23  He will die for lack of discipline, And in the abundance of his folly he will stumble in intoxication.