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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of 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] | 3For the lips of the adulterous 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 gall, 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 the grave. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God's people." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Should your springs overflow 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 deer-- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man's wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly. |
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