17 They should be for you aloneand not for you to share with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn —let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.
20 Why, my son, would you be infatuatedwith a forbidden womanor embrace the breast of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and He considers all his paths.
22 A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him; he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.
23 He will die because there is no discipline, and be lost because of his great stupidity.