Proverbs 5:12-23

12and you will say, "How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.
13I didn't obey my teachers
or listen closely to my mentors.
14I am on the verge of complete ruin
before the entire community."
15Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.
16Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?
17They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
18Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
19A loving doe, a graceful fawn-
let her breasts always satisfy you;
be lost in her love forever.
20Why, my son, would you be infatuated
with a forbidden woman
or embrace the breast of a stranger?
21For a man's ways are before the Lord's eyes,
and He considers all his paths.
22A wicked man's iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
23He will die because there is no discipline,
and be lost because of his great stupidity.