- 1. My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,
- 2. To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
- 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,
- 4. And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.
- 5. Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.
- 6. The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.
- 7. And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
- 8. Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
- 9. Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
- 10. Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
- 11. And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
- 12. And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
- 13. And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.
- 14. As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
- 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
- 16. Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
- 17. Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
- 18. Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
- 19. A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
- 20. And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
- 21. For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
- 22. His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
- 23. He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!
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