6. Lest she should make level the path leading to life,her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
7. So now, children, listen to me;do not turn aside from the words I speak.
8. Keep yourself far from her,and do not go near the door of her house,
9. lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
10. lest strangers devour your strength,and your labor benefit another man’s house.
11. And at the end of your life you will groanwhen your flesh and your body are wasted away.
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 –