Proverbs 5:12-23

¹²And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

¹³And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

¹⁴As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

¹⁶Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

¹⁷Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

¹⁹A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²⁰And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

²¹For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

²²His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

²³He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!