21. Keep their words always in your heart.Tie them around your neck.
22. When you walk, their counsel will lead you.When you sleep, they will protect you.When you wake up, they will advise you.
23. For their command is a lampand their instruction a light;their corrective disciplineis the way to life.
24. It will keep you from the immoral woman,from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
25. Don’t lust for her beauty.Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.
26. For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.
27. Can a man scoop a flame into his lapand not have his clothes catch on fire?
28. Can he walk on hot coalsand not blister his feet?
29. So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife.He who embraces her will not go unpunished.
30. Excuses might be found for a thiefwho steals because he is starving.
31. But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole,even if he has to sell everything in his house.