17. They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.
18. Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
19. A loving doe, a graceful fawn —let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.
20. Why, my son, would you be infatuatedwith a forbidden womanor embrace the breast of a stranger?
21. For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and He considers all his paths.
22. A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.