Proverbs 5:9-21

⁹lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;

¹⁰lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;

¹¹and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;

¹²and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

¹³and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;

¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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

¹⁶Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.

¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.

²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.