9Lest thou give thy honor to others, and thy years to the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15Drink waters out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee.