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 –
19. a loving doe, a graceful deer;may her breasts satisfy you at all times,may you be captivated by her love always.
20. But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
21. For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord’s eyes,and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths.