Proverbs 6:20-35

20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

21Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck.

22When you walk, they will guide you. When you lie down, they will watch over you, and when you wake up, they will speak to you.

23For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light, and corrective discipline the way of life,

24keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.

25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelids.

26For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.

27Can a man scoop fire into his lap without burning his clothes?

28Or can a man walk upon hot coals without scorching his feet?

29So is he who goes to another man’s wife. No one who touches her will go unpunished.

30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.

31Yet if he is caught, he must repay sevenfold, giving up all the wealth of his house.

32He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense. Whoever does so destroys himself.

33He will find disease and disgrace. His shame will never be wiped away.

34For jealousy enrages a man and he will show no mercy in the day of revenge.

35He will not accept any compensation, he will not consent, even if your bribe is great.