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¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
   flowing water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs be scattered abroad,
   streams of water in the streets?
¹⁷ Let them be for yourself alone,
   and not for sharing with strangers.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
   and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
¹⁹   a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
May her breasts satisfy you at all times;
   may you be intoxicated always by her love.
²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
   and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
²¹ For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord,
   and he examines all their paths.
²² The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
   and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
²³ They die for lack of discipline,
   and because of their great folly they are lost.

Practical Admonitions

6My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbour,
   if you have bound yourself to another,^*
2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips,^*
   caught by the words of your mouth.
³ So do this, my child, and save yourself,
   for you have come into your neighbour’s power:
   go, hurry,^* and plead with your neighbour.