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| 1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding, | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge. | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of hell. | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6Lest you ponder her path of life— Her ways are unstable; You do not know them. | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth. | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house, | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one; | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner; | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed, | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction! | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14I was on the verge of total ruin, In the midst of the assembly and congregation.” | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well. | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth. | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress? | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He ponders all his paths. | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 22His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin. | 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 23He shall die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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