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.