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5:1 My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 5:2 so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge. 5:3 For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; 5:4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol. 5:6 She does not keep straight to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. 5:7 And now, my child, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 5:8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house; 5:9 or you will give your honor to others, and your years to the merciless, 5:10 and strangers will take their fill of your wealth, and your labors will go to the house of an alien; 5:11 and at the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 5:12 and you say, "Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 5:13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 5:14 Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly." 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 5:16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers. 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 5:19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love. 5:20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 5:21 For human ways are under the eyes of the LORD, and he examines all their paths. 5:22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin. 5:23 They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.