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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Listen to my words of understanding.
5:2  Be careful to use good sense. Watch what you say.
5:3  The words of another man’s wife may seem sweet as honey. Her words may be as pleasant as olive oil.
5:4  But in the end she will bring you sorrow. She will cause you pain like a two-edged sword.
5:5  She is on the way to death. Her steps are headed straight to the grave.
5:6  She gives no thought to life. She does not know that her ways are wrong.
5:7  Now, my sons, listen to me. Don’t ignore what I say.
5:8  Stay away from such a woman. Don’t even go near the door of her house.
5:9  If you do, you will give your riches to others. And the best years of your life will be given to someone who is cruel.
5:10  Strangers will enjoy your wealth. And what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
5:11  You will groan at the end of your life. Then your health will be gone.
5:12  Then you will say, “I hated self-control! I would not listen when I was corrected!
5:13  I would not listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to what they taught me.
5:14  I have come very close to being completely ruined in front of a whole group of people.”
5:15  Be faithful to your own wife. She is like your own well of water from which you drink.
5:16  You wouldn’t drink from streams flowing in the city streets or squares. So be satisfied with your wife, not those outside your home.
5:17  These things are yours alone. Don’t share them with strangers.
5:18  Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joys as your fountain gives you water.
5:19  She is as lovely and graceful as a deer. Let her love always make you happy. Let her love always hold you captive.
5:20  My son, don’t be held captive by a woman who takes part in adultery. Don’t hold another man’s wife.
5:21  The Lord sees everything you do. He watches where you go.
5:22  An evil man will be caught in his evil ways. He will be tied up by his sins as if they were ropes.
5:23  He will die because he does not control himself. He will be held captive by his own foolishness.