# Proverbs 5 
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1. My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 
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2. that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 
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3. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 
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4. but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 
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5. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 
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6. she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. 
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7. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 
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8. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 
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9. lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 
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10. lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 
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11. and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 
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12. and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 
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13. I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 
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14. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.” 
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15. Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 
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16. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 
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17. Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 
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18. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 
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19. a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 
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20. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 
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21. For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. 
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22. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 
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23. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. 

(ESV)