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^1 (a)My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
    ^(b)incline your ear to my understanding,
² that you may keep ^(c)discretion,
    and your lips may ^(d)guard knowledge.
³ For the lips of ^(e)a forbidden^[a] woman drip honey,
    and her speech^[b] is ^(f)smoother than oil,
⁴ but in the end she is ^(g)bitter as ^(h)wormwood,
    ⁽ⁱ⁾sharp as ^(j)a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet ^(k)go down to death;
    her steps follow the path to^[c] Sheol;
⁶ she ^(l)does not ponder the path of life;
    her ways wander, and she does not know it.

⁷ And ^(m)now, O sons, listen to me,
    and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
⁸ Keep your way far from her,
    and do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your ⁽ⁿ⁾labors go to the house of a foreigner,
¹¹ and at the end of your life you ^(o)groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
¹² and you say, ^(p)"How I hated discipline,
    and my heart ^(q)despised reproof!
¹³ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
    or incline my ear to my instructors.
^14 (r)I am at the brink of utter ruin
    in the assembled congregation."

¹⁵ Drink ^(s)water from your own cistern,
    flowing water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your ^(t)springs be scattered abroad,
    streams of water ^(u)in the streets?
^17 (v)Let them be for yourself alone,
    and not for strangers with you.
¹⁸ Let your ^(w)fountain be blessed,
    and ^(x)rejoice in ^(y)the wife of your youth,
¹⁹     a lovely ^(z)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts ^(aa)fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated^[d] always in her love.
²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with ^(ab)a forbidden woman
    and embrace the bosom of ^(ac)an adulteress?^[e]
21 For ^(ad)a man's ways are ^(ae)before the eyes of the Lord,
    and he ^(af)ponders^[f] all his paths.
²² The ^(ag)iniquities of the wicked ^(ah)ensnare him,
    and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
^23 (ai)He dies for lack of discipline,
    and because of his great folly he is ^(aj)led astray.