Drink Water from the Right Well Rejoicing in the Spouse of Your Youth

Proverbs 5:15-23
English Standard Version (ESV)

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 deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated^[a] always in her love.
²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
    and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?^[b]
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
    and he ponders^[c] all his paths.
²² The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,
    and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
²³ He dies for lack of discipline,
    and because of his great folly he is led astray.