15. Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well.
16. Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?
17. [Confine yourself to your own wife] let your children be for you alone, and not the children of strangers with you.
18. Let your fountain [of human life] be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant doe [tender, gentle, attractive]–let her bosom satisfy you at all times, and always be transported with delight in her love.
20. Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray?
21. For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord, and He [Who would have us live soberly, chastely, and godly] carefully weighs all man's goings. [II Chron. 16:9; Job 31:4; 34:21; Prov. 15:3; Jer. 16:17; Hos. 7:2; Heb. 4:13.]
22. His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
23. He will die for lack of discipline and instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he will go astray and be lost.