Proverbs

¹⁰Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]– ¹¹And you groan and mourn when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed, ¹²And you say, How I hated instruction and discipline, and my heart despised reproof! ¹³I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor submitted and consented to those who instructed me. ¹⁴[The extent and boldness of] my sin involved almost all evil [in the estimation] of the congregation and the community. ¹⁵Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well. ¹⁶Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?