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19 She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;
    may her breasts satisfy you always;[a]
    by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
    and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21 For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,[b]
    and all his paths he examines.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:19 Literally “at all time”
  2. Proverbs 5:21 Literally “the ways of man/humankind”