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5:1  My son, if you listen closely to my wisdom and good sense,
5:2  you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.
5:3  The words of an immoral woman may be as sweet as honey and as smooth as olive oil.
5:4  But all that you really get from being with her is bitter poison and pain.
5:5  If you follow her, she will lead you down to the world of the dead.
5:6  She has missed the path that leads to life and doesn't even know it.
5:7  My son, listen to me and do everything I say.
5:8  Stay away from a bad woman! Don't even go near the door of her house.
5:9  You will lose your self-respect and end up in debt to some cruel person for the rest of your life.
5:10  Strangers will get your money and everything else you have worked for.
5:11  When it's all over, your body will waste away, as you groan
5:12  and shout, “I hated advice and correction!
5:13  I paid no attention to my teachers,
5:14  and now I am disgraced in front of everyone.”
5:15  You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well.
5:16  And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink.
5:17  Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.
5:18  Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
5:19  She is beautiful and graceful, just like a deer; you should be attracted to her and stay deeply in love.
5:20  Don't go crazy over a woman who is unfaithful to her own husband!
5:21  The Lord sees everything, and he watches us closely.
5:22  Sinners are trapped and caught by their own evil deeds.
5:23  They get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control.