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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;
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
Lest you ponder her path of life —
Her ways are unstable;
You do not know them.
Her ways are unstable;
You do not know them.
Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
Therefore hear me now, my children,
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Remove 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,
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 the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
I was on the verge of total ruin,
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Drink water from your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.
And running water from your own well.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.
And not for strangers with you.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
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 entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.