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# Chapter 5
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1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
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incline your ear to my understanding,
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2 that you may keep discretion,
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and your lips may guard knowledge.
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3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,
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and her speech is smoother than oil,
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4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
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sharp as a two-edged sword.
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5 Her feet go down to death;
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her steps follow the path to Sheol;
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6 she does not ponder the path of life;
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her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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7 And now, O sons, listen to me,
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and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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8 Keep your way far from her,
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and do not go near the door of her house,
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9 lest you give your honor to others
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and your years to the merciless,
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10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
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and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
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11 and at the end of your life you groan,
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when your flesh and body are consumed,
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12 and you say, “How I hated discipline,
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and my heart despised reproof!
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13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
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or incline my ear to my instructors.
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14 I am at the brink of utter ruin
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in the assembled congregation.”
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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
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flowing water from your own well.
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16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,
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streams of water in the streets?
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17 Let them be for yourself alone,
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and not for strangers with you.
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18 Let your fountain be blessed,
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and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
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Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
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be intoxicated always in her love.
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20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
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and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
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and he ponders all his paths.
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22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
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and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
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23 He dies for lack of discipline,
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and because of his great folly he is led astray. |