20My son, keep the commandments of thy father; and forsake thou not the law of thy mother.
21Bind thou those continually in thine heart; and encompass to thy throat.
22When thou goest, go they with thee; when thou sleepest, keep they thee; and thou waking, speak with them.
23For the commandment of God is a lantern, and the law is light, and the blaming of teaching is the way of life;
24that they keep thee from an evil woman, and from a flattering tongue of a strange woman.
25Thine heart covet not the fairness of her; neither be thou taken by the beckonings of her.
26For the price of a whore is scarcely a gobbet of bread; but such a woman taketh the precious soul of a man.
27Whether a man may hide fire in his bosom, that his clothes burn not;
28either go on coals, and his feet be not burnt?
29So he that entereth to the wife of his neighbour; shall not be clean, when he hath touched her.