Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.
Should your springs overflow in the streets
your streams of water in the public squares?
Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
May your fountain be blessed:
and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
A loving doe,
a graceful deer-
let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
and be you ravished always with her love.
Why be captivated, my son,
with an adulteress
and embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
For the ways of man are before the LORD,
and he examines all his goings.
The evil ways of a man ensnare him,
and he shall be held by the cords of his sins.
He shall die without instruction;
and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
running water from your own well.
Should your springs overflow in the streets
your streams of water in the public squares?
Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
May your fountain be blessed:
and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
A loving doe,
a graceful deer-
let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
and be you ravished always with her love.
Why be captivated, my son,
with an adulteress
and embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
For the ways of man are before the LORD,
and he examines all his goings.
The evil ways of a man ensnare him,
and he shall be held by the cords of his sins.
He shall die without instruction;
and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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