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5:1  My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my intelligence;
5:2  that thou may keep council and that thy lips may conserve knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of the strange 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 uphold Sheol,
5:6  lest thou should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable; thou shalt not know them.
5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,
5:9  lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy years unto the cruel,
5:10  lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours be in the house of a stranger,
5:11  and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed
5:12  and say, How have I hated chastening and my heart despised reproof
5:13  and have not obeyed the voice of those who chastened me, nor inclined my ear to those that instructed me!
5:14  I have been in almost every kind of evil, in the midst of society and of the congregation.
5:15  Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well.
5:16  Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of thy waters in the streets.
5:17  Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.
5:18  Thy fountain shall be blessed; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
5:19  Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love, without eyes for anyone else.
5:20  And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a woman belonging to someone else, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he weighs all his goings.
5:22  His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.
5:23  He shall die because he did not submit to chastening; and due to the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.