22. When thou goest, it shall guide thee; when thou sleepest, it shall be shomer over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23. For the mitzvah is a ner (lamp); and torah an ohr; and tokhakhot musar (reproofs of discipline) are the Derech Chayyim (Life Lane);
24. To be shomer over thee, keeping thee from the eshet rah, from the smooth lashon of the nokhriyah (strange woman).
25. Lust not after her beauty in thine lev; neither let her allure thee with her eyelids.
26. For by means of an isha zonah a man is reduced to a kikar lechem; and [another] man's wife will prey on the nefesh yekara (precious soul).
27. Can a man take eish in his kheyk, and his clothes not be burned?
28. Can one walk upon hot coals, and his regel not be burned?