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For she cares nothing about the path to life.
    She staggers down a crooked trail and doesn’t realize it.

So now, my sons, listen to me.
    Never stray from what I am about to say:
Stay away from her!
    Don’t go near the door of her house!
If you do, you will lose your honor
    and will lose to merciless people all you have achieved.
10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
    and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
11 In the end you will groan in anguish
    when disease consumes your body.

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She gives no thought to the way of life;
    her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.(A)

Now then, my sons, listen(B) to me;
    do not turn aside from what I say.
Keep to a path far from her,(C)
    do not go near the door of her house,
lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(D)
11 At the end of your life you will groan,
    when your flesh and body are spent.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years