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5:1  Son, listen to this piece of wisdom from me. Pay attention to what I know to be true.
5:2  Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.
5:3  Now, another man’s wife might be very charming, and the words from her lips so sweet and inviting.
5:4  But in the end, she will bring only bitterness and pain. It will be like bitter poison and a sharp sword.
5:5  She is on a path leading to death, and she will lead you straight to the grave.
5:6  Don’t follow her. She has lost her way and does not even know it. Be careful. Stay on the road that leads to life.
5:7  Now, my sons, listen to me. Don’t forget the words I say.
5:8  Stay away from the woman who commits adultery. Don’t even go near her house.
5:9  If you do, others will get the honor you should have had. Some stranger will get everything you worked years to get.
5:10  People you don’t know will take all your wealth. Others will get what you worked for.
5:11  At the end of your life, you will be sad that you ruined your health and lost everything you had.
5:12  Then you will say, “Why didn’t I listen to my parents? Why didn’t I pay attention to my teachers? I didn’t want to be disciplined. I refused to be corrected.
5:13  Then you will say, “Why didn’t I listen to my parents? Why didn’t I pay attention to my teachers? I didn’t want to be disciplined. I refused to be corrected.
5:14  So now I have suffered through just about every kind of trouble anyone can have, and everyone knows it.”
5:15  Now, about sex and marriage: Drink only the water that comes from your own well,
5:16  and don’t let your water flow out into the streets.
5:17  Keep it for yourself, and don’t share it with strangers.
5:18  Be happy with your own wife. Enjoy the woman you married while you were young.
5:19  She is like a beautiful deer, a lovely fawn. Let her love satisfy you completely. Stay drunk on her love,
5:20  and don’t go stumbling into the arms of another woman.
5:21  The Lord clearly sees everything you do. He watches where you go.
5:22  The sins of the wicked will trap them. Those sins will be like ropes holding them back.
5:23  Evil people will die because they refuse to be disciplined. They will be trapped by their own desires.