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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Open your ears to my understanding,
5:2  so that you may hold on to insight, so your lips may guard knowledge,
5:3  because the lips of an immoral woman drip with honey, and her words are as smooth as olive oil,
5:4  but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead to hell.
5:6  She gives no thought to the path of life. Her ways wander, but she doesn’t realize it.
5:7  Now, you sons, listen to me. Do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
5:8  Keep your way far from her. Do not go near the doorway of her house.
5:9  If you do, you will give your wealth to others and your years to a cruel person.
5:10  If you do, your work will satisfy strangers, and the results of your labor will end up in another man’s house.
5:11  You will groan when your end comes, when your body and flesh are consumed.
5:12  Then you will say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised warnings!
5:13  I did not listen to my teachers’ voices, and I did not open my ears to hear my instructors.
5:14  I soon reached total ruin in the midst of the assembly of the community.”
5:15  Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well.
5:16  Why should the water from your springs flow out into the street, your streams of water into the public squares?
5:17  They should be yours, yours alone. They are not for strangers to share with you.
5:18  Let your fountain be blessed. Obtain your joy from the wife you married in your youth,
5:19  who is a loving doe and a graceful deer. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be intoxicated with her love.
5:20  Why should you be led astray, my son, by an immoral woman? Why embrace a woman who is not your wife?
5:21  For the ways of a man are in front of the eyes of the Lord, and he weighs all of his paths.
5:22  The evil deeds of the wicked man will capture him, and he will be bound by the ropes of his sin.
5:23  He will die for lack of discipline, and he will go astray because of his great stupidity.