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.