Proverbs

⁸Let your way in life be far from her, and come not near the door of her house [avoid the very scenes of temptation], [Prov. 4:15; Rom. 16:17; I Thess. 5:19-22.] ⁹Lest you give your honor to others and your years to those without mercy, ¹⁰Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]– ¹¹And you groan and mourn when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹²And you say, How I hated instruction and discipline, and my heart despised reproof! ¹³I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor submitted and consented to those who instructed me. ¹⁴[The extent and boldness of] my sin involved almost all evil [in the estimation] of the congregation and the community.