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| 1. | My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding; |
| 2. | that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge. |
| 3. | For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; |
| 4. | but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. |
| 5. | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol. |
| 6. | Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither. |
| 7. | And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
| 8. | Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| 9. | lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; |
| 10. | lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger; |
| 11. | and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed; |
| 12. | and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! |
| 13. | and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me; |
| 14. | I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| 15. | Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. |
| 16. | Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways. |
| 17. | Let them be only thine own, and not strangers` with thee. |
| 18. | Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. |
| 19. | As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love. |
| 20. | And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
| 21. | For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths. |
| 22. | His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. |
| 23. | He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |