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.
30. People do not despise a thief if he steals to 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.