^{15 Ref} Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

^{16 Ref} Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

¹⁷ Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

^{18 Ref} Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

^{19 Ref} As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

^{20 Ref} Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

^{21 Ref} For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

^{22 Ref} The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

^{23 Ref} He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.