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\c 5
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\v 1 My son, learn the lessons I teach you about wisdom.
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\q2 I understand much about this, so listen very carefully to what I tell you.
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\q1
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\v 2 If you do that, you will learn the difference between what is important and what is not,
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\q2 and you will not mix true knowledge with mistakes when you speak.
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\q1
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\v 3 The woman who desires to commit adultery speaks with words that are sweet,
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\q2 and her kisses are smoother than oil,
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\q1
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\v 4 but in the end, she is so bitter you can taste it,
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\q2 and she cuts you like a sharp sword.
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\v 5 She walks down to the place of death;
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\q2 if you follow her, she will lead you all the way to the grave.
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\v 6 She does not want to take the path that will let her live for a long time.
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\q1 She goes here and there, but where she is going she does not know.
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\v 7 So now, my sons, pay attention to what I say,
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\q1 and do not forget or disobey the instruction I am giving you.
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\v 8 Stay far away from the immoral woman;
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\q2 do not go near the door of her house.
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\v 9 If you go to her you will lose the respect of others,
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\q2 and you give your life to someone who will not have mercy on you.
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\v 10 It may be that others will take all the wealth that you have earned,
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\q2 and it goes into the houses of people you do not know.
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\v 11 And when you are about to die,
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\q1 you will groan because your flesh and your body are wasting away.
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\v 12 Then you will say, "I hated it when I was punished for doing wrong;
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\q2 I despised people when they told me how to live.
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\v 13 I did not obey my teachers
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\q2 and I paid no attention to those who taught me.
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\v 14 I was almost destroyed by bad things that happened to me;
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\q2 and this was known to everyone who came together to worship Yahweh."
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\v 15 Just as you drink water from your own cistern, be faithful to your own wife.
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\v 16 You would not waste your own water by pouring it into the street,
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\q2 or let your water run into the public places.
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\v 17 Let both your water and your wife be for you alone to enjoy,
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\q2 and not for others to share with you.
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\v 18 May your fountain be blessed;
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\q1 may you be happy with the woman you married when you were young.
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\v 19 She is as graceful as a loving deer and as graceful as a young doe.
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\q2 Let her breasts always satisfy your longings,
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\q2 so you are forever enraptured with her love.
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\v 20 My son, why should you be caught up in the arms of an adulteress?
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\q2 Why should you caress the breasts of another man's wife?
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\v 21 Yahweh sees everything we do; nothing is hidden from him.
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\q2 He sees every path we take; he knows everywhere we go.
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\v 22 An evil person's sinful desires take hold of him;
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\q2 his sins are like a trap that catches him.
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\v 23 An evil man will die because he could not say, "No" to his desires;
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\q2 he gets lost because his foolishness has no limits.
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