8 Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;10 that strangers not be filled [with] your strength, and your labors [be] in the house of a stranger;11 and you moan when your end [comes], when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,12 and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;13 and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me!14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.