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5:1  Beni (my son), attend unto my chochmah, and bow thine ozen to my tevunah (understanding);
5:2  That thou mayest regard mezimah (discretion), and that thy sfatayim (lips) may keep da’as (knowledge).
5:3  For the sfatayim (lips) of a zarah (strange woman) drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than shemen (olive oil);
5:4  But her end is marah (bitter) as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged cherev.
5:5  Her raglayim go down to mavet; her steps lead to Sheol.
5:6  Lest thou shouldest compare [hers] to the orach chayyim, her ma’agalot (paths) are crooked, that thou canst not know them.
5:7  Hear me now therefore, O ye banim, and turn not from the words of my peh (mouth).
5:8  Remove thy derech far from her, and come not near the petach (doorway) of her bais;
5:9  Lest thou give thine hod (strength) unto others, and thy shanim unto the cruel one;
5:10  Lest zarim (strangers) be filled with thy koach; and thy toilings be in the bais nochri;
5:11  And thou mourn at the acharit (last, latter end, future), when thy basar and thy body are consumed,
5:12  And say, How have I hated musar, and my lev spurned tokhakhat (reproof);
5:13  And have not obeyed the voice of my morim (teachers), nor inclined mine ear to the ones who were my melamed!
5:14  I was at the brink of all rah (evil, ruin) in the midst of the kahal (congregation) and edah (assembly).
5:15  Drink mayim out of thine own bor (cistern), and running waters out of thine own well.
5:16  Should thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and channels of mayim in the rekhovot (town squares)?
5:17  Let them be only thine own, and never zarim (strangers) with thee.
5:18  Let thy makor (fountain) be blessed; and rejoice with the isha of thy youth.
5:19  Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou enraptured tamid (ever) with ahavat (love of) her.
5:20  And why wilt thou, beni (my son), be intoxicated with a zarah (strange woman), and embrace the kheyk (bosom) of a nochriyah (foreign [heathen] woman)?
5:21  For the drakhim ish are before the eyes of Hashem, and He pondereth all his ma’agalot (paths).
5:22  His own avonot shall entrap the rashah himself, and he shall be held fast by the cords of his chattat.
5:23  He shall die without musar; and in the greatness of his folly he shall be led astray.