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Proverbs 5

¹My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight.

²Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.

³The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,

⁴but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.

⁵She will take you down to the world of the dead; the road she walks is the road to death.

⁶She does not stay on the road to life; but wanders off, and does not realize what is happening.

⁷Now listen to me, sons, and never forget what I am saying.

⁸Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!

⁹If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.

¹⁰Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.

¹¹You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,

¹²and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

¹³I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.

¹⁴And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced."

¹⁵Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.

¹⁶Children that you have by other women will do you no good.

¹⁷Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.

¹⁸So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married---

¹⁹pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.

²⁰Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?

²¹The LORD sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.

²²The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

²³They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.