12. There is a manner of speech that is clothed about with death: Let it not be found in the heritage of Jacob; For all these things shall be far from the godly, And they shall not wallow in sins.
13. Accustom not your mouth to gross rudeness, For therein is the word of sin.
14. Remember your father and your mother, For you sit in the midst of great men; That you be not forgetful before them, And become a fool by your custom; So shall you wish that you had not been born, And curse the day of your nativity.
15. A man that is accustomed to words of reproach Will not be corrected all the days of his life.
16. Two sorts of men multiply sins, And the third will bring wrath: A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed: A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has burned out the fire.
17. All bread is sweet to a fornicator: He will not leave off till he die.
18. A man that goes astray from his own bed, Saying in his heart, Who sees me? Darkness is round about me, and the walls hide me, And no man sees me; of whom am I afraid? The Most High will not remember my sins;
19. —And the eyes of men are his terror, And he knows not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, Beholding all the ways of men, And looking into secret places.
20. All things were known to him or ever they were created; And in like manner also after they were perfected.
21. This man shall be punished in the streets of the city; And where he suspected not he shall be taken.
22. So also a wife that leaves her husband, And brings in an heir by a stranger.
23. For first, she was disobedient in the law of the Most High; And secondly, she trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she played the adulteress in whoredom, And brought in children by a stranger.
24. She shall be brought out into the congregation; And upon her children shall there be visitation.
25. Her children shall not spread into roots, And her branches shall bear no fruit.
26. She shall leave her memory for a curse; And her reproach shall not be blotted out.
27. And they that are left behind shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, And nothing sweeter than to take heed to the commandments of the Lord.