²³ For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,^(A)
24 to preserve you from the wife of another,^[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.^[b](B)
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,^(C)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,^[c]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.^(D)
27 Can fire be carried in the bosom
    without burning one’s clothes?
²⁸ Or can one walk on hot coals
    without scorching the feet?
²⁹ So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
    no one who touches her will go unpunished.^(E)
30 Thieves are not despised who steal only
    to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
³¹ Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
    they will forfeit all the goods of their house.^(F)
32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.^(G)
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
³⁴ For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
    and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.^(H)
35 He will accept no compensation
    and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.