18. a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
19. a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
20. My son, keep thy father’s commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21. Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck.
22. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23. For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,
24. to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyes.
26. For by means of a whorish woman a man is reduced to a piece of bread, and the woman will hunt the precious soul of the man.
27. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
28. Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?