19. a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
20. My son, keep your father’s commandand do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21. Bind them always on your heart;fasten them round your neck.
22. When you walk, they will guide you;when you sleep, they will watch over you;when you awake, they will speak to you.
23. For this command is a lamp,this teaching is a light,and correction and instructionare the way to life,
24. keeping you from your neighbour’s wife,from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25. Do not lust in your heart after her beautyor let her captivate you with her eyes.
26. For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
27. Can a man scoop fire into his lapwithout his clothes being burned?
28. Can a man walk on hot coalswithout his feet being scorched?
29. So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30. People do not despise a thief if he stealsto satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31. Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,though it costs him all the wealth of his house.