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5:1  My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding,
5:2  that you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
5:4  But her end 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, and she does not know it.
5:7  Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Remove your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
5:9  lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel;
5:10  lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of a stranger;
5:11  and you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
5:12  and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
5:13  And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
5:14  I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the congregation and assembly.”
5:15  Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
5:16  Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
5:17  Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
5:19  Let her be as the loving deer and pleasant doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love.
5:20  Why should you, my son, be intoxicated by an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
5:21  For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his goings.
5:22  His own iniquities entrap the wicked himself, and he is snared in the cords of his sins.
5:23  He will die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.