7. Now, my sons, listen to me.Don’t ignore what I say.
8. Stay away from such a woman.Don’t even go near the door of her house.
9. If you do, you will give your riches to others.And the best years of your life will be given to someone who is cruel.
10. Strangers will enjoy your wealth.And what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
11. You will groan at the end of your life.Then your health will be gone.
12. Then you will say, “I hated self-control!I would not listen when I was corrected!
13. I would not listen to my teachers.I paid no attention to what they taught me.
14. I have come very close to being completely ruinedin front of a whole group of people.”
15. Be faithful to your own wife.She is like your own well of water from which you drink.
16. You wouldn’t drink from streamsflowing in the city streets or squares.So be satisfied with your wife,not those outside your home.
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.