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.