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Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
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lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
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lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
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and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
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and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.