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?
28. Can a man walk on hot coalswithout his feet being scorched?
29. So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30. People do not despise a thief if he stealsto satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31. Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32. But a man who commits adultery has no sense;whoever does so destroys himself.
33. Blows and disgrace are his lot,and his shame will never be wiped away.