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

⁴ They are all adulterers,^(A)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
⁵ On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,^(B)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.^(C)
6 Their hearts are like an oven;^(D)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven;
    they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,^(E)
    and none of them calls^(F) on me.

⁹ “If my heart has been enticed^(A) by a woman,^(B)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
¹⁰ then may my wife grind^(C) another man’s grain,
    and may other men sleep with her.^(D)
11 For that would have been wicked,^(E)
    a sin to be judged.^(F)
12 It is a fire^(G) that burns to Destruction^[a];^(H)
    it would have uprooted my harvest.^(I)