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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding,
5:2  That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of an immoral woman drip 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 lay hold of hell.
5:6  Lest you ponder her path of life— Her ways are unstable; You do not know them.
5:7  Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,
5:9  Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;
5:10  Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
5:11  And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
5:12  And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!
5:13  I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
5:14  I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.
5:16  Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be only 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  As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love.
5:20  For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms 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 entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in 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.