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fili mi adtende sapientiam meam et prudentiae meae inclinaaurem tuam

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ut custodias cogitationes et disciplinam labia tuaconservent

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favus enim stillans labia meretricis et nitidius oleo guttureius

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novissima autem illius amara quasi absinthium et acuta quasigladius biceps

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pedes eius descendunt in mortem et ad inferos gressus illiuspenetrant

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per semitam vitae non ambulat vagi sunt gressus eius etinvestigabiles

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nunc ergo fili audi me et ne recedas a verbis oris mei

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longe fac ab ea viam tuam et ne adpropinques foribus domuseius

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ne des alienis honorem tuum et annos tuos crudeli

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ne forte impleantur extranei viribus tuis et labores tuisint in domo aliena

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et gemas in novissimis quando consumpseris carnes et corpustuum et dicas

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cur detestatus sum disciplinam et increpationibus nonadquievit cor meum

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nec audivi vocem docentium me et magistris non inclinaviaurem meam

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paene fui in omni malo in medio ecclesiae et synagogae

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bibe aquam de cisterna tua et fluenta putei tui

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deriventur fontes tui foras et in plateis aquas tuas divide

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habeto eas solus nec sint alieni participes tui

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sit vena tua benedicta et laetare cum muliere adulescentiaetuae

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cerva carissima et gratissimus hinulus ubera eius inebrientte omni tempore in amore illius delectare iugiter

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quare seduceris fili mi ab aliena et foveris sinu alterius

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respicit Dominus vias hominis et omnes gressus illiusconsiderat

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iniquitates suae capiunt impium et funibus peccatorumsuorum constringitur

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ipse morietur quia non habuit disciplinam et multitudinestultitiae suae decipietur

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My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

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That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

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He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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