Proverbs 6:20-35

Warnings Against Adultery

20 aMy son, keep your father’s commandment,
band forsake not your mother’s teaching.
21 cBind them on your heart always;
dtie them around your neck.
22 eWhen you walk, they
Hebrew it; three times in this verse
will lead you;
gwhen you lie down, they will hwatch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23For the commandment is ia lamp and the teaching a light,
and the jreproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24to preserve you from the evil woman,
Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields  from the wife of a neighbor

from the smooth tongue of lthe adulteress.
Hebrew  the foreign woman

25 nDo not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her oeyelashes;
26for pthe price of a prostitute is only qa loaf of bread,
Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate)  for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread

but a married woman
Hebrew  a man’s wife
thunts down a precious life.
27Can a man carry ufire next to his vchest
and his clothes not be burned?
28Or can one wwalk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
none who touches her xwill go unpunished.
30People do not despise a thief if he steals
to ysatisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31but zif he is caught, he will pay aasevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34For abjealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when ache takes revenge.
35He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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