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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen closely to my understanding |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2so that you may maintain discretion and your lips safeguard knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4in the end she's as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a double-edged sword. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Her feet go down to death; her steps head straight for Sheol. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6She doesn't consider the path of life; she doesn't know that her ways are unstable. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So now, sons, listen to me, and don't turn away from the words from my mouth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep your way far from her. Don't go near the door of her house. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner's house. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Should your springs flow in the streets, streams in the public squares? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19A loving deer, a graceful doe--let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For a man's ways are before the LORD's eyes, and he considers all his paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22A wicked man's iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity. |
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