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For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, 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 Sheol.
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Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
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And now, children, hearken unto me, 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 the fruits of thy toil [come] into the house of a stranger;
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and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
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and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
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and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;