12. And you will say, “How I hated discipline!My heart spurned reproof!
13. For I did not obey my teachersand I did not heed my instructors.
14. I almost came to complete ruinin the midst of the whole congregation!”
15. Drink water from your own cisternand running water from your own well.
16. Should your springs be dispersed outside,your streams of water in the wide plazas?
17. Let them be for yourself alone,and not for strangers with you.
18. May your fountain be blessed,and may you rejoice in your young wife –