7. And now, O sons, listen to me,and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8. Keep your way far from her,and do not go near the door of her house,
9. lest you give your honor to othersand your years to the merciless,
10. lest strangers take their fill of your strength,and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11. and at the end of your life you groan,when your flesh and body are consumed,
12. and you say, “How I hated discipline,and my heart despised reproof!
13. I did not listen to the voice of my teachersor incline my ear to my instructors.
14. I am at the brink of utter ruinin the assembled congregation.”
15. Drink water from your own cistern,flowing water from your own well.
16. Should your springs be scattered abroad,streams of water in the streets?
17. Let them be for yourself alone,and not for strangers with you.
18. Let your fountain be blessed,and rejoice in the wife of your youth,