21Bind thou those continually in thine heart; and encompass to thy throat. (Bind thou them continually to thy heart; and tie them about thy neck.)
22When thou goest, go they with thee; when thou sleepest, keep they thee (safe); 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; (For the commandment of God is a lantern, and the Law is a light, and the rebukes of discipline pointeth to the way of life;)
24(so) that 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 (in) by the beckonings of her. (Do not let thy heart desire her beauty; nor be thou taken in by her beckonings.)
26For the price of a whore is scarcely a gobbet of bread; but (such) a woman taketh (away) the precious soul of a man.