Proverbs

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the whole teaching [of the law] is light, and reproofs of discipline are the way of life, [Ps. 19:8; 119:105.] ²⁴To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a loose woman. ²⁵Lust not after her beauty in your heart, neither let her capture you with her eyelids. ²⁶For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man]. ²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? ²⁹So he who cohabits with his neighbor's wife [will be tortured with evil consequences and just retribution]; he who touches her shall not be innocent or go unpunished.