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¹ My child, be attentive to my wisdom,
    and to my understanding incline your ear;
² in order to keep prudence,
    and knowledge will guard your lips.
³ For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey,
    and smoother than oil is her mouth.^[a]
4 But her end is bitter as the wormwood,
    sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death;
    her steps take hold of Sheol.^[b]
6 She does not observe^[c] the path of life;
    her ways wander, and she does not know it.

⁷ Now, O children, listen to me;
    do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.
⁸ Keep your paths far from her,
    and do not go near to the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your honor to the others,
    and your years to the merciless,
¹⁰ lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
¹¹ and you groan at your end,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
¹² and say "How I hated discipline,
    and I despised reproof!"
¹³ and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers,
    and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!
¹⁴ I was almost at utter^[d] ruin^[e]
    in the midst of the assembly and congregation."
¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern
    and flowing waters from inside your own well.
¹⁶ Shall your springs be scattered outward?
    In the streets, shall there be streams of water?
¹⁷ May they be yours alone,
    and not for strangers who are with you.
¹⁸ May your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife^[f] of your youth.
¹⁹ She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;
    may her breasts satisfy you always;^[g]
    by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
    and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
²¹ For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,^[h]
    and all his paths he examines.
²² His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer,
    and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.
²³ He shall die for lack of^[i] discipline,
    and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.