24 They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.
25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after a precious life.
27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can a man walk on burning coalswithout scorching his feet?
29 So it is with the one who sleeps withanother man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 People don’t despise the thief if he stealsto satisfy himself when he is hungry.