5:7 So now, children, 1 listen to me;
do not turn aside from the words I speak. 2
5:8 Keep yourself 3 far 4 from her,
and do not go near the door of her house,
5:9 lest you give your vigor 5 to others
and your years to a cruel person,
5:10 lest strangers devour 6 your strength, 7
and your labor 8 benefit 9 another man’s house.
5:11 And at the end of your life 10 you will groan 11
when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12
5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
5:13 For 13 I did not obey my teachers 14
and I did not heed 15 my instructors. 16
5:14 I almost 17 came to complete ruin 18
in the midst of the whole congregation!” 19