¹² And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!
¹³ “I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to my instructors!
¹⁴ “I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern
And ^[a]fresh water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
¹⁷ Let them be yours alone
And not for strangers with you.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.