1<\/sup>My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.<\/span> <\/p>\n