Proverbs 5:15-23

CLV(i) 15 Drink water from your own cistern, And the flowings from the midst of your own well;" 16 Should your springs scatter forth in the streets, Your rillets of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours, for you alone, And not for aliens along with you." 18 May your fountain become blessed; Rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19 A loving hind and a graceful ibex; May her affections satisfy you in every season; May you be intoxicated by her love continually. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by a strange woman And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? 21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Yahweh, Who ponders all his routes." 22 Concerning the wicked man, his depravities, they shall seize him, And by the cables of his sin shall he be held firm." 23 He himself shall die in his lack of discipline, And in his great folly he shall expire."