Proverbs 5:15-23

[15] Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
[16] Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
[17] Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
[18] Let your fountain be blessed,
and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
[19] a lovely hind, a graceful doe.
Let her affection fill you at all times with delight,
be infatuated always with her love.
[20] Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman
and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
[21] For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he watches all his paths.
[22] The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
[23] He dies for lack of discipline,
and because of his great folly he is lost. 

IMAGE: Fleury Francois Richard, Young Woman at a Fountain (1824)