10. lest strangers feast on your wealthand your toil enrich the house of another.
11. At the end of your life you will groan,when your flesh and body are spent.
12. You will say, ‘How I hated discipline!How my heart spurned correction!
13. I would not obey my teachersor turn my ear to my instructors.
14. And I was soon in serious troublein the assembly of God’s people.’
15. Drink water from your own cistern,running water from your own well.
16. Should your springs overflow in the streets,your streams of water in the public squares?
17. Let them be yours alone,never to be shared with strangers.
18. May your fountain be blessed,and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19. A loving doe, a graceful deer –may her breasts satisfy you always,may you ever be intoxicated with her love.