7. Therefore, my son, listen to me now, and do not withdraw from the words of my mouth.
8. Make your way at a distance from her, and do not approach the doors of her house.
9. Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
10. Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
11. and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
12. "Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
13. And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?
14. I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly."
15. Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
16. Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.