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Avoid Immoral Women
My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen carefully to my wise counsel.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen carefully to my wise counsel.
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;
Then you will show discernment,
and your lips will express what you’ve learned.
and your lips will express what you’ve learned.
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
But in the end she is as bitter as poison,
as dangerous as a double-edged sword.
as dangerous as a double-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.
For she cares nothing about the path to life.
She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t realize it.
She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t realize it.
Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
So now, my sons, listen to me.
Never stray from what I am about to say:
Never stray from what I am about to say:
And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Stay away from her!
Don’t go near the door of her house!
Don’t go near the door of her house!
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
If you do, you will lose your honor
and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.
and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.
lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
Strangers will consume your wealth,
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
In the end you will groan in anguish
when disease consumes your body.
when disease consumes your body.
and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
You will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers?
Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?
Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?
and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
I have come to the brink of utter ruin,
and now I must face public disgrace.”
and now I must face public disgrace.”
I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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.
You should reserve it for yourselves.
Never share it with strangers.
Never share it with strangers.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
She is a loving deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts satisfy you always.
May you always be captivated by her love.
Let her breasts satisfy you always.
May you always be captivated by her love.
As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman,
or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?
or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
For the LORD sees clearly what a man does,
examining every path he takes.
examining every path he takes.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
An evil man is held captive by his own sins;
they are ropes that catch and hold him.
they are ropes that catch and hold him.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.