Proverbs 5:12-23

¹²and say, Why loathed I teaching, and mine heart assented not to blamings;

¹³neither I heard the voice of men teaching me, and I bowed not down mine ear to masters?

¹⁴Almost I was in all-evil, in the midst of the church, and of the synagogue.

¹⁵Drink thou water of thy cistern, and the floods of thy well.

¹⁶Thy wells be streamed forth; and part thy waters in streets.

¹⁷Have thou alone them or them alone; and aliens be not thy partners.

¹⁸Thy vein be blessed; and be thou glad with the woman of thy young waxing age.

¹⁹An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.

²⁰My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?

²¹The Lord seeth the ways of a man; and he beholdeth all his steps.

²²The wickednesses of a wicked man take him; and he is bound with the ropes of his sins.

²³He shall die, for he had not learning, and he shall be deceived in the muchliness of his folly.