Proverbs 5:9-23

⁹lest you give away your life to others, and your substance to the merciless:

¹⁰lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your labours come into the houses of strangers;

¹¹And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,

¹²and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

¹³I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply my ear.

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

¹⁵Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.

¹⁶Let not waters out of your fountain be spilt by you, but let your waters go into your streets.

¹⁷Let them be only your own, and let no stranger partake with you.

¹⁸Let your fountain of water be truly your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

¹⁹Let your loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.

²⁰Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.

²¹For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.

²²Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.

²³Such a man dies with the uninstructed; and he is cast forth from the abundance of his own substance, and has perished through folly.