10. Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength,and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11. You will groan at the endwhen your body and flesh are exhausted,
12. and you say, "How I hated instruction!How my heart despised correction!
13. I didn’t listen to the voice of my instructor.I didn’t obey my teacher.
14. I’m on the brink of utter ruinin the assembled community."
15. Drink water from your own cistern,gushing water from your own well.
16. Should your fountains flood outside,streams of water in the public squares?
17. They are yours alone,not for you as well as strangers.
18. May your spring be blessed.Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19. She is a lovely deer, a graceful doe.Let her breasts intoxicate you all the time;always be drunk on her love.
20. Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious womanand embrace the breasts of a foreign female?
21. The Lord’s eyes watch over every person’s path,observing all their ways.
22. The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts,grabbed by the ropes of their own sin.