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\v 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
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\q listen carefully to my understanding,
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\v 2 so you may learn about discretion
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\q and your lips may protect knowledge.
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\v 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip with honey
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\q and her mouth is smoother than oil,
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\v 4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood,
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\q cutting like a sharp sword.
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\v 5 Her feet go down to death;
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\q her steps go all the way to sheol.
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\v 6 She gives no thought to the path of life.
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\q Her footsteps wander; she does not know where she is going.
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\v 7 And now, my sons, listen to me;
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\q do not turn away from listening to the words of my mouth.
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\v 8 Keep your path far away from her
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\q and do not come near the door of her house.
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\v 9 In that way you will not give away your honor to others
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\q or years of your life to a cruel person;
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\v 10 strangers will not feast on your wealth;
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\q what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.
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\v 11 At the end of your life you will groan
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\q when your flesh and your body waste away.
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\v 12 You will say, "How I hated discipline
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\q and my heart despised correction!
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\v 13 I would not obey my teachers
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\q or listen to my instructors.
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\v 14 I was almost completely ruined
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\q in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people."
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\v 15 Drink water from your own cistern
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\q and drink running water from your own well.
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\v 16 Should your springs overflow everywhere
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\q and your streams of water flow in the public squares?
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\v 17 Let them be for yourself alone
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\q and not for strangers with you.
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\v 18 May your fountain be blessed
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\q and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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\v 19 For she is a loving deer and a graceful doe.
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\q Let her breasts fill you with delight at all times;
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\q always be captivated by her love.
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\v 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress;
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\q why should you embrace the breasts of a strange woman?
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\v 21 Yahweh sees everything a person does
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\q and watches all the paths he takes.
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\v 22 A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities;
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\q the cords of his sin will hold him tight.
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\v 23 He will die because he lacks discipline;
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\q he is led astray by his great foolishness.
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