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¹ My child, be attentive to my wisdom,
pay close attention to my understanding,
² in order to safeguard discretion,
and that your lips may guard knowledge.
³ For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
⁴ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵ Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead straight to the grave.
⁶ Lest she should make level the path leading to life,
her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
⁷ So now, children, listen to me;
do not turn aside from the words I speak.
⁸ Keep yourself far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
⁹ lest you give your vigor to others
and your years to a cruel person,
¹⁰ lest strangers devour your strength,
and your labor benefit another man's house.
¹¹ And at the end of your life you will groan
when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
¹² And you will say, "How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
¹³ For I did not obey my teachers
and I did not heed my instructors.
¹⁴ I almost came to complete ruin
in the midst of the whole congregation!"
¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern
and running water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs be dispersed outside,
your streams of water in the wide plazas?
¹⁷ Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
¹⁸ May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in your young wife—
¹⁹ a loving doe, a graceful deer;
may her breasts satisfy you at all times,
may you be captivated by her love always.
²⁰ But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,
and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
²¹ For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord's eyes,
and the Lord weighs all that person's paths.
²² The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities,
and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
²³ He will die because there was no discipline;
because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.