^{7 Ref} Now therefore, `my' sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

^{8 Ref} Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

^{9 Ref} Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;

^{10 Ref} Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors `be' in the house of an alien,

^{11 Ref} And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

^{12 Ref} And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

^{13 Ref} Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

^{14 Ref} I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.