Coverdale(i)
8 Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye ye dores of hir house.
9 That thou geue not thine honor vnto another, and thy yeares to the cruell.
10 That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, & that thy labours come not in a straunge house.
11 Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)
12 and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion?
13 Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?
14 I am come almost in to all mysfortune, in the myddest of the multitude and congregacion.
15 Drinke of the water of thine owne well, and of the ryuers that runne out of thine owne spriges.
16 Let yi welles flowe out a brode, that there maye be ryuers of water in the stretes.
17 But let them be only thine owne, & not straungers with the.
18 Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth.
19 Louynge is the hynde, and frendly is the Roo: let her brestes alwaye satisfie the, and holde the euer content with hir loue.
20 My sonne, why wilt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome of another woma?