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- My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight,
- that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
- For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
- but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
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- My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
- That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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- She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not.
- Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say.
- Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
- lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel,
- lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house.
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- Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
- Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
- Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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- At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
- You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
- I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors.
- I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly."
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- And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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