20. My son, keep your father’s command,and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
21. Always bind them to your heart;tie them around your neck.
22. When you walk here and there, they will guide you;when you lie down, they will watch over you;when you wake up, they will talk to you.
23. For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
24. They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.
25. Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
26. For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after a precious life.
27. Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28. Can a man walk on burning coalswithout scorching his feet?