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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
5:2  So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, And her speech 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 take hold of Sheol.
5:6  She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.
5:7  Now then, 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  Otherwise you will give your vigor to others, And your years to the cruel one;
5:10  And strangers will be filled with your strength, And your hard-earned possessions will go to the house of a foreigner;
5:11  And you will groan in the end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;
5:12  And you say, “How I hated instruction! And my heart disdainfully rejected rebuke!
5:13  I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, Nor incline my ear to my instructors!
5:14  I was almost in total 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 overflow into the street, Streams of water in the public squares?
5:17  Let them be yours alone, And not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
5:19  Like a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.
5:20  For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?
5:21  For the ways of everyone are before the eyes of the Lord, And He observes all his paths.
5:22  His own wrongdoings will trap the wicked, And he will be held by the ropes of his sin.
5:23  He will die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his foolishness he will go astray.