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5 My son, pay attention to the wise things that I tell you!
Listen carefully to what I say you should understand!
2 Do this so that you may remain discreet,
and you may preserve what you know when you speak.
3 Do this because what an adulterous woman says seems delightful like honey
and more pleasing than olive oil.
4 However, being with her will result in you being miserable, as if you had eaten a bitter plant.
You will suffer like a person whom someone has cut with a sharp, double-edged sword.
5 Being with her will result in both of you dying as if she were leading you to where dead people are.
Indeed, what she does will cause you both to die.
6 She does not want to do what will cause her to live for a long time.
She does not realize that she lives precariously like someone who is walking on an uneven path.
7 So now, children, pay attention to what I say!
Always remember what I have spoken to you!
8 Stay far away from an adulterous woman!
Do not even go near the door of the place where she dwells!
9 If you go to her, people will weaken you,
and a merciless person will take away what you have gained in the best time of your life.
10 If you go to her, people you do not know will satisfy themselves with what you gained when you were strong,
and a foreign person will fill his house with what you labored to gain.
11 Then you will groan when you are about to die
and have worn out your whole body.
12 Then you will say, “I hated it extremely when people corrected me!
Indeed, I scorned people when they rebuked me!
13 I did not obey the people who taught me.
Indeed, I did not listen carefully to the people who instructed me.
14 I almost utterly disgraced myself in public.”
15 So be like someone who only drinks water from his own well;
have sex with your wife only.
16 Do not be like someone who lets his water run out into the streets;
never have sex with other women!
17 Only have sex with your own wife!
Do not have sex with other women!
18 Be happy with your wife;
rejoice with the woman whom you married when you were young.
19 She is as beautiful as a loving deer and as graceful as a mountain goat.
Let her beauty always satisfy you.
Constantly be exhilarated by how she loves you.
20 My son, you should never be exhilarated by an adulterous woman!
You should never passionately caress an immoral woman!
21 Never do that] because Yahweh fully knows what people do.
Indeed, he knows everything that people do.
22 The wicked things that wicked people do are like traps that catch them;
the sinful things they do are like] ropes that tie them down.
23 Those wicked people will die because they did not discipline themselves.
They will do what kills them because they are extremely foolish.
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