25 Don’t lust for her beauty.Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.
26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.
27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lapand not have his clothes catch on fire?
28 Can he walk on hot coalsand not blister his feet?
29 So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife.He who embraces her will not go unpunished.
30 Excuses might be found for a thiefwho steals because he is starving.
31 But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole,even if he has to sell everything in his house.