5:7 So now, children,
do not turn aside from the words I speak.
5:8 Keep yourself
and do not go near the door of her house,
5:9 lest you give your vigor
and your years to a cruel person,
5:10 lest strangers devour
and your labor
5:11 And at the end of your life
when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!
My heart spurned reproof!
5:13 For
and I did not heed
5:14 I almost
in the midst of the whole congregation!”