| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; |
| 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 take hold of Sheol. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6She does not ponder the path of life; Her ways are unstable, she does not know it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now then, my 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] | 9Or you will give your vigor to others And your years to the cruel one; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien; |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And you groan at your final end, When your flesh and your body are consumed; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And you say, "How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to my instructors! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I was almost in utter ruin In the midst of the assembly and 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 be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Let them be yours 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] | 19As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He watches all his paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22His own iniquities will capture the wicked, 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 instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray. |
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