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# Chapter 5
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1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
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Lend your ear to my understanding,
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2 That you may preserve discretion,
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And your lips may keep knowledge.
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3 For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey,
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And her mouth 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 lay hold of hell.
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6 Lest you ponder her path of life—
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Her ways are unstable;
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You do not know them.
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7 Therefore hear me now, my children,
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And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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8 Remove 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 cruel one;
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10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
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And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
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11 And you mourn at last,
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When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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12 And say:
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“How I have hated instruction,
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And my heart despised correction!
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13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
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Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
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14 I was on the verge of total ruin,
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In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
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And running water from your own well.
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16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
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Streams of water in the streets?
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17 Let them be only your own,
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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 with the wife of your youth.
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19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
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Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
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And always be enraptured with her love.
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20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
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And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
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21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
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And He ponders all his paths.
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22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
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And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
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23 He shall die for lack of instruction,
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And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |