^{15 Ref} Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

^{16 Ref} Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

¹⁷ Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

^{18 Ref} Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

^{19 Ref} A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

^{20 Ref} And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

^{21 Ref} For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

^{22 Ref} His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

^{23 Ref} He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!