9 lest you give your strength to others and your years to one who is cruel;
10 lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
11 At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
13 I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.