9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to othersand your years to someone cruel;
10 strangers will drain your resources,and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11 At the end of your life, you will lamentwhen your physical body has been consumed,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline,and how my heart despised correction.
13 I didn’t obey my teachersor listen closely to my mentors.
14 I am on the verge of complete ruinbefore the entire community.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern,water flowing from your own well.