Proverbs 5:15–23 · BSB
5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
5:16
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
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5:17
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
5:18
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
5:19
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
5:20
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
5:21
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
5:22
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
5:23
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
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