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# Chapter 5
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1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
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listen closely to my understanding
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2 so that you may maintain discretion
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and your lips safeguard knowledge.
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3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
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and her words are smoother than oil,
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4 in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood
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and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
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5 Her feet go down to death;
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her steps head straight for Sheol.
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6 She doesn’t consider the path of life;
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she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
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7 So now, sons, listen to me,
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and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth.
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8 Keep your way far from her.
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Don’t go near the door of her house.
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9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
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and your years to someone cruel;
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10 strangers will drain your resources,
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and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.
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11 At the end of your life, you will lament
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when your physical body has been consumed,
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12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
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and how my heart despised correction.
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13 I didn’t obey my teachers
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or listen closely to my instructors.
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14 I am on the verge of complete ruin
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before the entire community.”
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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
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water flowing from your own well.
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16 Should your springs flow in the streets,
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streams in the public squares?
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17 They should be for you alone
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and not for you to share with strangers.
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18 Let your fountain be blessed,
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and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
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19 A loving deer, a graceful doe—
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let her breasts always satisfy you;
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be lost in her love forever.
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20 Why, my son, would you lose yourself
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with a forbidden woman
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or embrace a wayward woman?
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21 For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
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and he considers all his paths.
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22 A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;
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he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.
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23 He will die because there is no discipline,
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and be lost because of his great stupidity. |