New American Bible, Revised Edition

Proverbs 5:10-16 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. Lest outsiders take their fill of your wealth,and your hard-won earnings go to another’s house;

11. And you groan in the end,when your flesh and your body are consumed;

12. And you say, “Oh, why did I hate instruction,and my heart spurn reproof!

13. Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers,incline my ear to my instructors!

14. I am all but ruined,in the midst of the public assembly!”

15. Drink water from your own cistern,running water from your own well.

16. Should your water sources be dispersed abroad,streams of water in the streets?