Proverbs

¹ listen very closely to the way I see it.

² what I tell you will keep you out of trouble.

³ her soft words are oh so smooth.

⁴ a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart.

⁵ she's headed straight for Hell and taking you with her.

⁶ about who she is or where she's going.

⁷ don't treat my words casually.

⁸ absolutely stay out of her neighborhood.

⁹ to waste your precious life among the hardhearted.

¹⁰ Why be exploited by those who care nothing for you?

¹¹ nothing but sin and bones,

¹² Why did I reject a disciplined life?

¹³ or take my teachers seriously?

¹⁴ I haven't one blessed thing to show for my life!"

¹⁵ draw water from your own spring-fed well"?

¹⁶ and find your barrel empty and your well polluted.

¹⁷ not to be passed around among strangers.

¹⁸ Enjoy the wife you married as a young man!

¹⁹ don't ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted!

²⁰ for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?

²¹ he's aware of every step you take.

²² you'll find yourself stumbling all over yourself in the dark.

²³ your foolish decisions trap you in a dead end.