17. These things are yours alone.Don’t share them with strangers.
18. Be happy with the wifeyou married when you were young.She gives you joysas your fountain gives you water.
19. She is as lovely and graceful as a deer.Let her love always make you happy.Let her love always hold you captive.
20. My son, don’t be held captive by a woman who takes part in adultery.Don’t hold another man’s wife.
21. The Lord sees everything you do.He watches where you go.
22. An evil man will be caught in his evil ways.He will be tied up by his sins as if they were ropes.
23. He will die because he does not control himself.He will be held captive by his own foolishness.