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¹ MY son, attend to my wisdom and incline your ear to my understanding,² That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.³ For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her words are smoother than oil;⁴ But the end of her life is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.⁵ Her feet cause men to go down to death; her steps take her to Sheol.⁶ She does not tread upon the land of the living, her paths are devious, and are unknown.⁷ Hear me now therefore, O you children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.⁸ Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house;⁹ Lest you give your strength to others, and your years to the cruel;¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of strangers;¹¹ And you have remorse in your old age, when the flesh of your body is consumed,¹² And you say, Why did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproof,¹³ And why have I not obeyed the voice of my teacher, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me?¹⁴ I was in almost all kinds of evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

¹⁵ Drink water out of your own well, and running water from your own spring.¹⁶ Let your water overflow into your streets, let it be disbursed abroad.¹⁷ Let it be for yourself alone, let not strangers be partners with you.¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice in the wife of your youth.¹⁹ Let her be like a loving hind, and pleasant mountain roe; learn her ways always, and be mindful of her love.²⁰ My son, be not misled by a strange woman, neither embrace the bosom of a strange woman.²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and all his paths lie open in his presence.²² The wicked shall be caught by his own iniquities, and he will be bound with the cords of his sins.²³ He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.