Proverbs 5:7-21

⁷Now, my sons, listen to me; do not turn away from listening to the words of my mouth.

⁸Keep your path far away from her and do not come near the door of her house.

⁹In that way you will not give away your honor to others or years of your life to a cruel person;

¹⁰strangers will not feast on your wealth; what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.

¹¹At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body waste away.

¹²You will say, “How I hated instruction and my heart despised correction!

¹³I would not obey my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

¹⁴I was almost completely ruined in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.”

¹⁵Drink water from your own cistern and drink running water from your own well.

¹⁶Should your springs overflow everywhere and your streams of water flow in the public squares?

¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone and not for strangers with you.

¹⁸May your fountain be blessed and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth,

¹⁹for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be continually intoxicated by her love.

²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress; why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman?

²¹Yahweh sees everything a person does and watches all the paths he takes.