9. Otherwise, you will give your strength to others,your years to a cruel person.
10. Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength,and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11. You will groan at the endwhen your body and flesh are exhausted,
12. and you say, "How I hated instruction!How my heart despised correction!
13. I didn’t listen to the voice of my instructor.I didn’t obey my teacher.
14. I’m on the brink of utter ruinin the assembled community."
15. Drink water from your own cistern,gushing water from your own well.