4. But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol.
6. She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
7. Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth.
8. Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,
9. lest you give your honor to the others, and 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 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.