16. These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.
17. Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--
18. A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--
19. A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
20. Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
21. Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
22. In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh [with] thee.
23. For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
24. To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25. Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
26. For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
27. Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
28. Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
29. So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
30. They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
31. And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
32. He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.