31 “I made a covenant with my eyes^(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.^(B)

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,^(A)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.^(A)

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷ who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.^[a](B)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(C)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.^(D)

²⁰ Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright will live in the land,^(E)
    and the blameless will remain in it;
²² but the wicked^(F) will be cut off from the land,^(G)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.^(H)

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
    running water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs overflow in the streets,
    your streams of water in the public squares?
¹⁷ Let them be yours alone,
    never to be shared with strangers.
¹⁸ May your fountain^(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.^(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer^(C)—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
²⁰ Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

²¹ For your ways are in full view^(D) of the Lord,
    and he examines^(E) all your paths.^(F)

¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern,
    running water from your own well.
¹⁶ Should your springs overflow in the streets,
    your streams of water in the public squares?
¹⁷ Let them be yours alone,
    never to be shared with strangers.
¹⁸ May your fountain^(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.^(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer^(C)—
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
²⁰ Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

²¹ For your ways are in full view^(D) of the Lord,
    and he examines^(E) all your paths.^(F)