8Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
9Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
10lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;
11and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;
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.