9 Lest you give your honor to others,And your years to the cruel one;
10 Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;
11 And you mourn at last,When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12 And say:“How I have hated instruction,And my heart despised correction!
13 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!
14 I was on the verge of total ruin,In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern,And running water from your own well.