20. My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
21. Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
22. When you walk, she will lead you, When you lie down, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you.
23. For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline,
24. in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.
25. Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
26. For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life.
27. Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?
28. If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?
29. Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
30. People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.
31. But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.