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5:1  My son, stay focused; listen to the wisdom I have gained; give attention to what I have learned about life
5:2  So you may be able to make sensible judgments and speak with knowledge.
5:3  You see, the lips of a seductive woman speak honey-sweet words; they are smooth like oil and enticing.
5:4  But in the end, she is bitter, turning the stomach and rotting the soul; she cuts as deep as a double-edged sword.
5:5  She leads you down a path that can only end in death; her steps lead eventually to the grave.
5:6  She does not travel the road to life and truth. She follows a wandering path— a rocky, pit-filled road that twists and turns—and she doesn’t even know it.
5:7  So, my children, listen to me. Do not stray from my advice.
5:8  Stay away from her, far away from her path; don’t even go near her door
5:9  Unless you are ready to hand over your reputation to someone else, unless you want to spend the rest of your years at the mercy of some cruel person.
5:10  If you do, strangers will help themselves to your wealth, and everything you have worked hard to acquire will end up in someone else’s hands.
5:11  Your life will end with groanings of remorse, of opportunities missed, and your flesh and bones will be eaten up with sorrow, regret for worthless efforts.
5:12  Then you’ll say, “Why did I hate being taught? Why did I turn my back on correction?
5:13  I disregarded all that my teachers said to me; I turned my ear away from my instructors!
5:14  Now I am on the edge of complete and utter ruin in the midst of the community.”
5:15  Here’s what you should do to be satisfied: go home and drink in the pleasures of your own cistern, your wife; enjoy the sweet, fresh water that has been there all along, flowing from your own well.
5:16  Take care. Should your own springs, your body, be freely shared? Should your streams of water satisfy anyone in the streets? Absolutely not!
5:17  They should be kept pure for you and you alone, not for sharing with strangers.
5:18  May your fountain, your sex life, be blessed by God; may you know true joy with the wife of your youth.
5:19  She who is lovely as a deer and graceful as a doe— as you drink in her love, may her breasts satisfy you at all times.
5:20  My son, why get caught up in some other woman and embrace the breast of a stranger?
5:21  You see, the Eternal sees our ways before Him. He watches every move we make and knows where those paths lead.
5:22  The wicked will be snared by their own wrongdoing. Their flaws will tie their own hands, and they will be dragged through life by the cords of their sins.
5:23  Because they have no discipline, their spirits die and their bodies will soon follow; because they are immensely foolish, they wander lost and confused.