6. She doesn’t consider the path of life;she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
7. So now, my sons, listen to me,and don’t turn away from the words of my mouth.
8. Keep your way far from her.Don’t go near the door of her house.
9. Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to othersand your years to someone cruel;
10. strangers will drain your resources,and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11. At the end of your life, you will lamentwhen your physical body has been consumed,
12. and you will say, “How I hated discipline,and how my heart despised correction.
13. I didn’t obey my teachersor listen closely to my mentors.
14. I am on the verge of complete ruinbefore the entire community.”
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.