20. My son, keep your father’s commandand do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21. Bind them always on your heart;fasten them round your neck.
22. When you walk, they will guide you;when you sleep, they will watch over you;when you awake, they will speak to you.
23. For this command is a lamp,this teaching is a light,and correction and instructionare the way to life,
24. keeping you from your neighbour’s wife,from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25. Do not lust in your heart after her beautyor let her captivate you with her eyes.
26. For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
27. Can a man scoop fire into his lapwithout his clothes being burned?