20. My son, keep your father’s commands.Don’t forget your mother’s teaching.
21. Remember their words forever.Let it be as if they were tied around your neck.
22. They will guide you when you walk.They will guard you while you sleep.They will speak to you when you are awake.
23. Their commands are like a lamp.Their teaching is like a light.And the correction that comes from themhelps you have life.
24. Such teaching will keep you from sinful womenand from the pleasing words of another man’s unfaithful wife.
25. Don’t want her because she is beautiful.Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.
26. A prostitute may leave you with only a loaf of bread.And a woman who takes part in adultery may cost you your life.
27. You cannot carry hot coals against your chestwithout burning your clothes.
28. And you cannot walk on hot coalswithout burning your feet.
29. The same thing happens if you commit adultery with another man’s wife.Anyone who does so will be punished.
30. People do not hate a thiefwhen he steals because he is hungry.