17. Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
18. Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
19. a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
20. Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
21. The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
22. His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
23. He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.