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Proverbs 6:22-31 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

22. When you walk, let them keep step with you. When you sleep, let them guard you. And when you keep watch, speak with them.

23. For commandment is a lamp, and law is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.

24. So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

25. Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

26. For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

27. Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?

28. Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned?

29. So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.

30. Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.

31. Also, if he is apprehended, he shall repay sevenfold and hand over all the substance of his house.

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