9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
10 lest strangers devour your strength,and your labor benefit another man’s house.
11 And at the end of your life you will groanwhen your flesh and your body are wasted away.
12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline!My heart spurned reproof!
13 For I did not obey my teachersand I did not heed my instructors.
14 I almost came to complete ruinin the midst of the whole congregation!”
15 Drink water from your own cisternand running water from your own well.