Proverbs 5:12-23 ▼

12 and you will say, |How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

13 I did not obey my teachers and did not listen to my instructors.

14 Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation.|

15 Drink water from your own cistern, and fresh water from your own well.

16 Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?

17 They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.

19 Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.

20 Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

21 Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.

22 The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.

23 He will die for lack of discipline, and he goes astray because of his great folly.