¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
    flowing water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs be scattered abroad,
    streams of water in the streets?^(A)
17 Let them be for yourself alone
    and not for sharing with strangers.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth,^(B)
19     a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
May her breasts satisfy you at all times;
    may you be intoxicated always by her love.^(C)
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?^[a](D)
21 For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord,
    and he examines all their paths.^(E)
22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
    and they are caught in the coils of their sin.^(F)
23 They die for lack of discipline,
    and because of their great folly they are lost.^(G)