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19 Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe,
    let her breasts satisfy you all the time.
        Be constantly intoxicated by her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son,
    and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

21 Indeed, what a man does is[a] always in the Lord’s presence,[b]
    and he weighs all his paths.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:21 Lit. Indeed, a man’s ways are
  2. Proverbs 5:21 Lit. in front of the Lord’s eyes