006:018 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift
in running to mischief,
006:019 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows
discord among brothers.
006:020 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake
your mother's teaching.
006:021 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
006:022 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch
over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
006:023 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light.
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
006:024 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of
the wayward wife's tongue.
006:025 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her
captivate you with her eyelids.
006:026 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
006:027 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
006:028 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
006:029 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches
her will not be unpunished.
006:030 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself
when he is hungry:
006:031 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
He shall give all the wealth of his house.
006:032 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who does it destroys his own soul.
006:033 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not
be wiped away.
006:034 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare
in the day of vengeance.
006:035 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content,
though you give many gifts.
007:001 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
007:002 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple
of your eye.
007:003 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
007:004 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
007:005 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner
who flatters with her words.
007:006 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
007:007 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths
a young man void of understanding,
007:008 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way
to her house,
007:009 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle
of the night and in the darkness.
007:010 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
007:011 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
007:012 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking
at every corner.
007:013 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she
said to him:
007:014 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
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