17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18. a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run to evil,
19. a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers.
20. My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
21. Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck.
22. When you walk, they will guide you. When you lie down, they will watch over you, and when you wake up, they will speak to you.
23. For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light, and corrective discipline the way of life,
24. keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.
25. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelids.
26. For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.
27. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without burning his clothes?
28. Or can a man walk upon hot coals without scorching his feet?
29. So is he who goes to another man’s wife. No one who touches her will go unpunished.
30. Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.