23. The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light;corrective teaching is the path of life.
24. They guard you from the evil woman,from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.
25. Don’t desire her beauty in secret;don’t let her take you in with her eyelashes,
26. for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread,but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.
27. Can a man scoop fire into his lapand his clothes not get burned?
28. If a man walks on hot coals,don’t his feet get burned?
29. So is the man who approaches his neighbor’s wife;anyone who touches her will be punished.
30. People don’t despise a thief if he stealsto fill his starving stomach.
31. But if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold;he must give all the riches of his house.
32. He who commits adultery is senseless.Doing so, he destroys himself.
33. He is wounded and disgraced.His shame will never be wiped away.