10. lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
11. and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed,
12. and say “How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!”
13. and “I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!
14. I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
15. Drink water from your own cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.
16. Shall your springs be scattered outward? In the streets, shall there be streams of water?
17. May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you.
18. May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19. She is a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you always; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
20. Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21. For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways, and all his paths he examines.
22. His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.
23. He shall die for lack of discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost.