10. lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
11. At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—
12. and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
13. I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors.
14. I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
15. Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16. Should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in public squares?
17. Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers.
18. May your fountain be blessed and may you delight in the wife of your youth.
19. A lovely hind, a graceful doe— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you always be captivated by her love.
20. Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?
21. For a man’s ways are before the eyes of Adonai, and He observes all his paths.
22. The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
23. He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.