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Proverbs 6:20-35

20 My son, keep your father's mitzvah, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

21 Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.

22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

23 For the mitzvah is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,

24 To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, And his clothes not be burned?

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

28 Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?

29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30 Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

31 But if he be found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.

34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35 He won't regard any ransom, Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.

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