9. Lest you give your honor to others and your years to those without mercy,
10. Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]–
11. And you groan and mourn when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed,
12. And you say, How I hated instruction and discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13. I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor submitted and consented to those who instructed me.
14. [The extent and boldness of] my sin involved almost all evil [in the estimation] of the congregation and the community.
15. Drink waters out of your own cistern [of a pure marriage relationship], and fresh running waters out of your own well.
16. Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?