Proverbs 5

8 Keep your way far from her.

Don’t go near the door of her house.  * 5:8 Pr 2:18; 7:8; 9:14

9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others

and your years to someone cruel;

10 strangers will drain your resources,

and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

11 At the end of your life, you will lament

when your physical body has been consumed,

12 and you will say, "How I hated discipline,

and how my heart despised correction.  * 5:12 Ps 107:11; Pr 1:7,28–31; 12:1; 13:18

13 I didn’t obey my teachers

or listen closely  * 5:13 Lit or turn my ear to my instructors.

14 I am on the verge of complete ruin

before the entire community."