Proverbs 5:11-21

11 Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,
12 "How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,
13 I ignored what my teachers said, I didn't listen to my instructors.
14 I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it."
15 Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.
16 Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;
17 but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her
19 a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.
20 My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?
21 For ADONAI is watching a man's ways; he surveys all his paths.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.