Proverbs 5:8-20

Thomson(i) 8 Remove thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house; 9 That thou mayst not give thy life to others, and thy substance to the cruel: 10 that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, and thy labours go into the houses of strangers, 11 and thou at last be grieved. When the flesh of thy body is consumed, 12 then thou wilt say, "How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I hearkened not to the voice of him who instructed me and taught me; nor have I inclined mine ear. 14 I have been almost in all evil, in the midst of the assembly and congregation." 15 Drink water from thine own vessels, and from the wells of thine own fountain. 16 Let not the waters from thy fountain over flow for thee; but let thy waters run in thine own streets. 17 Let them be for thyself only, and let no stranger partake with thee. 18 Let thy fountain of water be appropriate to thyself; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let thy loving hind and graceful fawn converse with thee; and let her be accounted peculiarly thine, and be with thee on all occasions. For ravished with her love thou wilt become a numerous family. 20 Be not devoted to a strange woman, nor embraced in the arms of one not thine own.