Proverbs 5:15-23

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

¹⁶So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water;

¹⁷They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee.

¹⁸Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth,—

¹⁹The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually.

²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?

²¹For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.

²²His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.

²³He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.