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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Incline your ear to my insight,
5:2  that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
5:3  For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.
5:4  But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sheol.
5:6  She does not keep straight to the path of life, her paths are crooked —but she does not know it.
5:7  So now, my sons, listen to me and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Keep your path far from her and do not go near the door of her house—
5:9  lest you give your strength to others and your years to one who is cruel;
5:10  lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
5:11  At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—
5:12  and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
5:13  I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors.
5:14  I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
5:16  Should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in public squares?
5:17  Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers.
5:18  May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
5:19  A lovely hind, a graceful doe— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you always be captivated by her love.
5:20  Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?
5:21  For a man’s ways are before the eyes of Adonai, and He observes all his paths.
5:22  The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
5:23  He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.