Proverbs 5:16-23

¹⁶Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

¹⁷Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

¹⁸Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

¹⁹As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

²⁰Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

²¹For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

²²The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

²³He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.