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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly. |
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