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Avoid Immorality
My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;
Warning Against Adultery
My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
that you may keep discretion,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
and your lips may guard knowledge.
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
she does not ponder the path of life;
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
her ways wander, and she does not know it.
And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
And now, O sons, listen to me,
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Keep your way far from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
and do not go near the door of her house,
lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
lest you give your honor to others
and your years to the merciless,
and your years to the merciless,
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
and you say, “How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
and my heart despised reproof!
and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.
or incline my ear to my instructors.
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
I am at the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled congregation.”
in the assembled congregation.”
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
flowing water from your own well.
Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
streams of water in the streets?
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
and not for strangers with you.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.