15. Drink water from your own cistern,water flowing from your own well.
16. Should your springs flow in the streets,streams of water in the public squares?
17. They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.
18. Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
19. A loving doe, a graceful fawn —let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.
20. Why, my son, would you be infatuatedwith a forbidden womanor embrace the breast of a stranger?
21. For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and He considers all his paths.
22. A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
23. He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity.