Proverbs 5:11-22

¹¹You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

¹²and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

¹³I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁴I have come to the brink of utter ruin, amongst the gathered assembly.”

¹⁵Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

¹⁶Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

¹⁸Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

¹⁹A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

²¹For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

²²The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.