Proverbs 5:15-23

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.^(A)
16 Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams in the public squares?^(B)
17 They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.^(C)
19 A loving deer, a graceful doe^[a]—
let her breasts always satisfy you;^(D)
be lost in her love forever.
²⁰ Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?^(E)
21 For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,^(F)
and he considers all his paths.^(G)
22 A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;^(H)
he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.^(I)
23 He will die because there is no discipline,^(J)
and be lost because of his great stupidity.