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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Bend your ear to what I know,
5:2  so you might remain discreet, and your lips might guard knowledge.
5:3  The lips of a mysterious woman drip honey, and her tongue is smoother than oil,
5:4  but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death; her steps lead to the grave.
5:6  She doesn’t stay on the way of life. Her paths wander, but she doesn’t know it.
5:7  Now sons, listen to me, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Stay on a path that is far from her; don’t approach the entrance to her house.
5:9  Otherwise, you will give your strength to others, your years to a cruel person.
5:10  Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength, and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.
5:11  You will groan at the end when your body and flesh are exhausted,
5:12  and you say, “How I hated instruction! How my heart despised correction!
5:13  I didn’t listen to the voice of my instructor. I didn’t obey my teacher.
5:14  I’m on the brink of utter ruin in the assembled community.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern, gushing water from your own well.
5:16  Should your fountains flood outside, streams of water in the public squares?
5:17  They are yours alone, not for you as well as strangers.
5:18  May your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
5:19  She is a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts intoxicate you all the time; always be drunk on her love.
5:20  Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious woman and embrace the breasts of a foreign female?
5:21  The Lord’s eyes watch over every person’s path, observing all their ways.
5:22  The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts, grabbed by the ropes of their own sin.
5:23  Those without instruction will die, misled by their own stupidity.