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5:1  My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding;
5:2  so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.
5:3  For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil;
5:4  but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5:5  Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh’ol;
5:6  she doesn’t walk the level path of life — her course wanders all over, but she doesn’t know it.
5:7  So now, children, listen to me; don’t turn away from what I am saying:
5:8  distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;
5:9  so that you won’t give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,
5:10  so strangers won’t be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.
5:11  Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,
5:12  “How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,
5:13  I ignored what my teachers said, I didn’t listen to my instructors.
5:14  I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it.”
5:15  Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.
5:16  Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;
5:17  but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.
5:18  Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her —
5:19  a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.
5:20  My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?
5:21  For Adonai is watching a man’s ways; he surveys all his paths.
5:22  A wicked person’s own crimes will trap him, he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin.
5:23  He will die from lack of discipline; the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.