5:9. Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
5:10. Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,
5:11. And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
5:12. Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
5:13. And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?
5:14. I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.
5:15. Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
5:16. Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.
5:17. Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
5:18. Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: