PROVERBS 5:12-21

¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

¹³Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

¹⁶Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?

¹⁷Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

²⁰For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he maketh level all his paths.