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11 and you groan at your end, in the consumption of your flesh and your body, 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart spurned rebuke! 13 And I have not listened to the voice of my instructors, and I have not inclined my ear to those teaching me. 14 Am I as a little from all evil, in the midst of the assembly and the gathering.” 15 Drink water from your own cistern and flowing from the midst of your own well. 16 Should your fountains be dispersed outside, channels of water in broad places? 17 Let them be for you, yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer, let her breasts satisfy you at all times—may you wander in her love continually! 20 So why do you wander, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? 21 For the ways of man are in front of the eyes of YHWH, and all his paths He weighs. 22 His own iniquities capture a wicked one, and he is held with the cords of his sin. 23 He shall die for lack of discipline, and in the abundance of his folly he shall go astray. Proverbs 5:11-23, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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