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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and listen closely to my insight, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2so you may carefully practice discretion and your lips preserve knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But in the end she is 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 lead to Sheol. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You aren't thinking about where her life is headed; her steps wander, but you do not realize it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep far away from her, and don't go near the entrance to her house, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You will cry out in anguish when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly. |
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