18. a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19. a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
20. My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21. Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
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 instruction are the way to life,
24. keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or 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 lap without his clothes being burned?
28. Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
29. So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.