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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and you 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 instructors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. |
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