Proverbs 5:7-23 - Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom

⁷ So now, my sons, listen to me,
and don’t turn away from the words of my mouth.
⁸ Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.
⁹ Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others
and your years to someone cruel;
¹⁰ strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.
¹¹ At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,
¹² and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.
¹³ I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely to my mentors.
¹⁴ I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community.”

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?
¹⁷ They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
¹⁹ A loving doe, a graceful fawn—
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.
²⁰ Why, my son, would you be infatuated
with a forbidden woman
or embrace the breast of a stranger?
²¹ For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and He considers all his paths.
²² A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
²³ He will die because there is no discipline,
and be lost because of his great stupidity.