23. These commands are like a lamp;this teaching is like a light.And the correction that comes from themwill help you have life.
24. They will keep you from sinful womenand from the pleasing words of another man’s unfaithful wife.
25. Don’t desire her because she is beautiful.Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.
26. A prostitute will treat you like a loaf of bread,and a woman who takes part in adultery may cost you your life.
27. You cannot carry hot coals against your chestwithout burning your clothes,
28. and you cannot walk on hot coalswithout burning your feet.
29. The same is true if you have sexual relations with another man’s wife.Anyone who does so will be punished.
30. People don’t hate a thiefwhen he steals because he is hungry.
31. But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole,and it may cost him everything he owns.
32. A man who takes part in adultery has no sense;he will destroy himself.